Jonathan Carroll

Nov 19, 2024 | conjunctions.com | Jonathan Carroll

As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.      Fredo was also a peace offering of sorts. We’d been fighting a lot recently, sometimes just picking at each other. Sometimes throwing force four tornadoes.

Jun 21, 2024 | boredpanda.com | FAO Schwarz |Jonathan Carroll |George Clarke |Laurent Gauthier

While nothing beats stepping foot in a real museum and taking in its atmosphere, fascinating artifacts, and history, it’s not always possible to escape from our busy lives and dedicate an afternoon to calmly strolling around an exhibition. A great solution for this is an online museum where you can get your cultural fix without leaving your coach. It's even better if it’s full of peculiar finds—the ones that pique our interest so much that it becomes hard to look away.

Mar 21, 2024 | jcarroll.com.au | Jonathan Carroll

I’ve been learning at least one new programming language a month throughExercism which has been really fun and interesting. I frequently say that “every language you learn teaches you something about all theothers you know” and with nearly a dozen under my belt so far I’m starting to worry about the combinatorics of that statement. APL isn’t on the list of languages but I’ve seen it in codegolf solutions often enough that itseemed worth a look.

Feb 23, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jonathan Carroll

Protagonist Graham Patterson finds himself at a crossroads. His comedy career isn’t exactly on fire, and he lacks any real friendships or bonds. So, he does what any prideful middle-aged man at loose ends would do: He buys a bright red Mustang convertible and heads west. True, he may, in fact, be crawling to his brother for a job, but at least he has a sweet ride. When the car breaks down in North Carolina, it seems like life is giving him one more kick. Or is it an opportunity?

Feb 13, 2024 | reactormag.com | Gwenda Bond |Jeffrey Ford |Daniel José Older |Jonathan Carroll

If you want to go down a rabbithole of fun debates over who said it and arguments about whether it’s true, search the famous (infamous?) quote, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Leaving aside the fact that dancing about architecture seems fabulous — more dancing about everything, I say—there’s a stickiness to this because it’s perfectly said… Whether it was Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa or someone who is always opining at a bar to the person next to them: It...