Andrew Shields

A warm, sunny West Phliadelphia afternoon in October 1989

The Tom Ollendorff Trio with Conor Chaplin, James Maddren, and special guest Tim Garland at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 16 March 2024

Gambling in lyrics by Robert Hunter and by Taylor Swift

Marlon James on Beyoncé haters; me on Taylor Swift haters

A thesis on early Taylor Swift, immediately disproven

The triple meaning of Montresor’s toast to Fortunato’s “long life” in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846)