Jan 3

Jan 3 How Our Cruelty Killed Hootie and the Blowfish — and Damaged Our Souls

Dave Holmes, writing for Esquire, offers this “full-throated defense” of Hootie and the Blowfish,” and explains how the cruelty we allowed to bring the band down more than 20 years ago has led to the world we live in now. Several are calling it the best thing that has been written so far in 2019.

Dec 24

Dec 24 Take Script, Add Snow

Damien Willis

Reporting Worth Reading

Jane Borden, writing for Longreads, explores why we’re so obsessed with predictable Hallmark Christmas movies.

Dec 12

Dec 12 Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think

Damien Willis

Reporting Worth Reading

Feeling boxed in by her reputation for kindness, the comic is weighing whether to leave daytime TV, as her wife wants, or to stay, as her brother urges.

Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Damien Willis is a newspaper reporter and communications professional. He generally writes about the ways we pass our time in the 21st century.