by Kevin Burton In J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Sound-Sweep,” the main character is a non-verbal boy who has the job of vacuuming up all the stray sounds in a world without music. He befriends an opera singer living in an abandoned recording studio. The opera singer is destitute, having been displaced from …
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Hey Sports Nut, Could You Give Up ESPN?
by Kevin Burton What was previously unthinkable, now I don’t even think about. I’m talking about a ravenous, red-blooded American sports fan giving up ESPN. I did that, we did that, years ago. This comes up because it is football season now, or close enough. The pre=season pro games have started. The …
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