This Is Not Music!

It's worse than you think

My personal Substack

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

There are six sides to every story. And then some.

From April 11 - August 11 I read and respond to Mavis Gallant

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Everyday culture and found objects

Laurie Penny's extraordinary internet salon. Features, fictions, essays and necessary trouble for misfits, malcontents and tender-hearted rebels.

The Autotelic is where I put it all – writing, singing, anything I dream up — to chronicle and share about this wild, beautiful, and imperfect journey.

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

A weekly autobiographical comics exploration of music and the 80s and politics and philosophy and climate and spaceship DJs - a ball, a mouse, and a robot who wears a top hat.

independent thought experiment

Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Essays, criticism, and interviews on food culture, media, and politics sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.