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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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Thoughts On Serial Season 1: A Podcast Post Mortem
The first season of Serial is the most popular podcast of all time. With over five million downloads, it far outpaces anything that’s come before it. People attribute the show’s success to a number of things: 1) It adopted a television-style narrative approach, unfolding one story over several episodes, yet leaving each of those episodes… Continue Reading →
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Some Final Thoughts on 2014
This year is about to come to an end. Just a few hours left and it will gasp its final breath. We will count down the seconds, watch a glowing ball of light descend a few feet, we will kiss our loved ones, and that will be that. 2014 will soon begin to exist only… Continue Reading →
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How Raising a Toddler is Not Unlike Living in Jurassic Park
There are so many things that I love about being the father of a toddler. Toddlers are wonderful. They are also scary. The “terrible twos” is not just the period when your child learns to throw tantrums and deflate into a human puddle of rage and flopping limbs. It is when that little reptilian brain… Continue Reading →
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Book Review | Log of the Cutty Sark by Basil Lubbock
The Log of the Cutty Sark examines the career of one of the greatest sailing ships to ever ply the water. Written by Basil Lubbock, this book takes a blow by blow account of the ship’s construction, service, near wrecks, and ultimate fate. We follow her progress from the shipyards of Scotland, to the tea… Continue Reading →
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I like to write about writing, parenting, 19th century tea clipper races, and pickles. Read on.
ABOUT PICKLES
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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