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Why Pickles, and also, Why Blog at All?
I can hear you asking. I can hear the incredulity whirring behind your crinkled eyebrows. Why, exactly, would someone restart a blog? A blog? A web-log? You say. Seems a bit old fashioned, doesn’t it? This form of communication peaked about twenty years ago. No flash. No pizzazz. Virality is unlikely. This is not monetizable… Continue Reading →
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Basil Lubbock | Historian, Author, Sailor, Soldier (1876 – 1944)
Basil Lubbock is possibly the world’s most prolific author on 19th century merchant ships, penning dozens of books and articles on the height of commercial sailing in the West, including, among other things, the Famous Tea Clipper Races. Yet, for someone who wrote so much, his legacy has fallen on hard times with recent research and discoveries casting… Continue Reading →
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A Dispatch to the Future: Horses, Robots, & The End of the World
What I am writing in this post has already become irrelevant. Writers have an uneasy relationship with time. They often aren’t appreciated until they cross their arms and lay down in a coffin. Writing, by its very nature, is communication with the future. Unless you’re live tweeting your magnum opus, no one sees it until months… Continue Reading →
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Visiting the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, England
I first heard the story of the Cutty Sark and the Famous Tea Clipper Races shortly after I began working for a North American tea importing company. I learned that in the mid 1800s British merchants were so keen to bring back the first shipment of tea from China that they built thoroughbred sailing ships… Continue Reading →
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Then, Who Won the Space Race?
My last post on why “America Did Not Win The Space Race” ruffled some feathers on Reddit and Twitter. So before I go further let me put a few things straight: 1. Americans walked on the Moon. Period. Moon landing deniers waste everyone’s time. 2. I understand that most people refer to the “space race”… Continue Reading →
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I like to write about writing, parenting, 19th century tea clipper races, and pickles. Read on.
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Why Pickles, & also Why Blog at All?
A fair question. I’m not really sure the answer. I like the backhanded tautology of it. A pickled cucumber is just a pickle. Not that deep. Just mildly funny. I’m not sure what to tell you.
Joshua Rigsby
Joshua Rigsby runs a bookstore in a small town. He has written for Thrillist, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Southern California Public Radio, and the Atlantic.
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