Featured Article
The SDMB has experts in many fields, including a few who are well-known outside the SDMB. One such renowned expert is
Atomic Mama, a.k.a. Amy van Singel of
Living Blues magazine. Here she tells us about meeting Georgia Tom (the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey, one of the earliest stars of gospel music) and Tampa Red.
True Life Adventures
blinkie has been living with Locked In Syndrome since a 2001 stroke.
We at
teemings are proud to be presenting his memoirs, and have the second chapter in this issue. This chapter describes the events immediately leading up to his stroke. If you missed the first chapter, you can read it
here.
When I was growing up, we lived within walking distance of the woods. I’m not talking about a thin patch of scraggly trees here, I mean a real forest. And this was in the ’50s, when parents didn’t worry about their children playing in the woods unsupervised. [
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Essays and Criticism
CalMeacham meditates on the changing ways Earth has been portrayed. When did artists stop depicting it as a globe and start portraying it as the cloud-covered planet we live on?
Some people who started the new Stephen King novel,
Under the Dome, when it came out in November are just coming up for air now -- it's well over 1,000 pages!
teemings columnist
Just Ed gives us his take on the tome.
Fiction
"Icarus" by Doc Cathode
Daedalus was a thinker and an inventor. The king considered Daedalus a great treasure, so he locked him away. Such a mind cannot be held by an ordinary prison; Daedalus found a way out. [more ...]
Humor
Well, not an awful lot went on in Potter’s Point last month, except for the meeting of the ad hoc committee on what to do about the Zenas W. Potter Elementary School. [
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Best of the Boards
The denizens of the SDMB give themselves usernames that make jokes, express opinions, or pay homage to a favorite author. Sometimes the meanings our usernames evoke are only discovered after the fact -- as when someone asks “If your board name was a food...” Check out the menu at the SD Cafe for some of the answers.
Regular Columns
This month, word maven
samclem tackles a “real” etymological problem, the origin of the phrase “the real McCoy.”
In this month’s column,
WordMan introduces us to a guitar god’s guitar god, Cliff Gallup. Never heard of him? Maybe not his name, but you’ll recognize his killer licks.
Diamonds are not the only valuable commodity that exacts a huge price on the people doing the labor of mining them.
Arnold Winkelreid takes a look at the traffic in "conflict minerals" in Africa.
