Gabe Bullard | Is On The Internet
About Walter Cronkite
I wasn’t alive for any of Cronkite’s evening broadcasts, but I did study him a lot in school. I think that makes me unqualified to say much about him. I love Cronkite’s work, and I’ll leave more meaningful remembrances to more competent writers. They’re going on now about how there will never be another Cronkite. [...]
Abe Lincoln Is On The Internet
If you have the misfortune of following me on Twitter, you were no doubt assailed with tweets containing lyrics to popular songs mangled into odes to the 16th President and marked with the tag #lincolnlyrics. A coworker and I invented this game after trying to think of songs about Abe Lincoln and his alleged depression. We [...]
For Lux
When I was sixteen, I had my first parents-free concert experience. After school, a friend and I took the train from Belleville to St. Louis to see the White Stripes. There wasn’t a line at the venue, so to kill time we went into a nearby record store. At home, I was starting to look [...]