Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and lots of rejoicing is taking place around the world. And it should be celebrated – The Origin of Species fundamentally changed the way humans understand life on this planet. Maybe I’m splitting hairs here, but it’s frustrating to me how many times I’ve heard people refer to Darwin as the “inventor” of the theory of evolution.

He didn’t invent the theory of evolution. » Read on »

As I’m starting this blog, Lux Interior of The Cramps has just died of a heart condition. Technically he was 63, but really he was a timeless, in a way only true originals can be. I don’t mean that his music or his band were timeless (they draw heavily on early rock’n’roll but rarely pushed past those influences), I mean Lux himself was an archetype – a raconteur – and in that he’s timeless. » Read on »