Today, I had the misfortune of hearing Jack Johnson’s totally unimaginative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s overrated Imagine. Why does this song merit air play? How is Johnson’s version any different than those offered by tens of thousands of other sensitive-guys-with-guitars at open mic nights throughout the country? It’s just so, ordinary. Yet for some reason, […]

Over yonder at Slate, they asked some authors to name the book they feel most guilty about having never read. Most of them picked a title that is generally considered to be a classic, written by an author generally considered to be a big dog in literary circles.Many of the people interviewed have actually started […]