Ben Greenman

2 weeks ago | bgreenman.substack.com | Ben Greenman

I never really write here about my other life, by which I mean the one that puts food on the table and the table there in the first place. The only thing I’ve ever made money from is writing, though the type of writing has shifted several times during the years. As a young person I was a newspaper reporter and film critic, then wrote reference books, then worked for magazines while I published short-story collections and novels, then left the magazine and started writing mainstream non-fiction.

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Ben Greenman

Sly Stone, who died this week, once wrote a song called “Time,” which included this lyric: “Time needs another minute at least/Take your time, but you’ve got a limit.”He was right about that. The limit has been reached. Before there was a funk Picasso, before Sly changed the way that everyone heard pop music and then changed it again, before he flashed his trillion-dollar smile a trillion times, there was a baby in a family.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Greenman

Sly Stone, October 1969 (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)Sly Stone, who died this week, once wrote a song called “Time,” which included this lyric: “Time needs another minute at least/Take your time, but you’ve got a limit.”He was right about that. The limit has been reached. Before there was a funk Picasso, before Sly changed the way that everyone heard pop music and then changed it again, before he flashed his trillion-dollar smile a trillion times, there was a baby in a family.

Mar 11, 2025 | arxiv.org | Ben Greenman

arXiv:2503.08928 (cs) View PDF HTML (experimental) Comments: Subjects: Programming Languages (cs.PL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Software Engineering (cs.SE) ACM classes: D.3.3; D.2.2 Cite as: arXiv:2503.08928 [cs.PL] (or arXiv:2503.08928v1 [cs.PL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.08928 Submission history From: Dibri Nsofor [ view email] [v1] Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:18:51 UTC (1,085 KB) Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ()...

Jan 18, 2025 | bgreenman.substack.com | Ben Greenman

It’s not autocorrect. It’s me. My fingers, in attempting to type “Lynch,” jog right and type “Lunch.” It’s funny, in a way. It’s a movement from the sublime to the mundane. I started wondering if “Lunchian” is a good portmanteau adjective and decided it was not. I also started thinking about artwork and artists, and why some works and creators fade a bit from my memory over time while others surge. As you get older, you want different things and you need fewer things.