Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The second step of explaining baseball: the possible outcomes when the batter hits the pitched ball

The first step in explaining baseball: the four possible outcomes of each pitch

My paternal grandmother’s voting history, from 1920 to 1976

The first two nights of Hammondwoche at the Bird’s Eye in Basel: LaBox and Florian Arbenz’s Truth

A powerful Australian movie about schizophrenia whose title I had forgotten: “Angel Baby” (1995)

“We learned to play our bloody instruments”: From Warsaw to Joy Division