When You Find Yourself In The Thick Of It, Help Yourself To A Bit of What Is All Around You

"Matt Hoyle's Barnumville series is made up of captivating black and white portraits of performers in one of America's last sideshows."

On Transgender Day of Visibility.

Can you love the work and not the author?  On Flannery O'Connor.

Left: awesome.

Big Pun!  Ah, memories...

I wanted to believe this was an April Fools Joke but...it appears to be legit.  Wow.

Maybe the most impressive business card ever.

Why do we tolerate misogyny in music?  Good question....I know that I listen to some lyrics that are seriously at odds with my world view.

Turbans and headwraps - definitely in the works for summer (but not that last look...)

Rape is always bad and always a crime - no exceptions.  NPR's Tell Me More brought together a survivor, a judge and an anti-rape activist to address the under-discussed issue of prison rape. As Judge Reggie B. Walton said, "I don't sentence people to rape."

Albums of the day: "Paul's Boutique" (Beastie Boys), "Another Side Of Bob Dylan" (Bob Dylan).