Bart Bull

Recovering Vogue Editor
(and Details, and SPIN, and Sounds...)
writer, reporter, critic, skateboarder

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Merle Haggard, 1988, from SPIN

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     Is Merle Haggard what country music is about in 1988?   Maybe not.  Randy Travis is having more hits, Dwight Yoakam is more visible, H...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Aphorism No. 82: One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set!

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The default of reporting is doubt. Its corollary is wonder.
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Friday, May 17, 2019

Aphorism No. 83; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set

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All reporting is "investigative reporting," or else it's publicity.
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Thursday, September 6, 2018

How Burt Reynolds Personally Invented Film Noir (Version Bronzage du Soleil) Late One Friday Evening On His Front Porch In The Everglades

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Stick, starring Burt Reynolds, directed by Burt Reynolds by Bart Bull published in the  Arizona Republic (For almost exactly one year, I ...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Ladder of Success; a letter from Ted Hawkins

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Booking No 6872-844 Terminal Annex Los Angeles CA 90054 Dear Bart: This will acknowledge receipt of the literature you sent me dated ...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Aphorism No. 90; One of a Series; Collect The Whole Set!

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The brain is not located on the tip of the tongue.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The Wise King (from "The Devil's Waiting Room — Fairy Tales For The Over-Grown" )

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Once there was a wise king. There may well have been a few others over the years, but really, not so very many. Let's face it — ...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Aphorism No. 84; One of Series; Collect the Whole Set!

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A guideline for future CIA directors: Torture is immoral when you do it to me. When I do it to you, it's just fine.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Boris and Natasha; A Savage Journey

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“Boris, dah-link, wake up!  Seat belts must be fascinated!  We land now in Lost Angeles!  Wake up, dah-link!” [Vague sleepy mutteri...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Hiatt Hotel — John Hiatt feature story from SPIN, 1987

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He's late. It's not necessarily his fault, but he's late just the same.  Too late to do anything about it but sit tight in a ca...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Aphorism Number 88; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set

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Anybody can peel a banana once somebody shows you how.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Aphorism No. 87; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set

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Life is not in chronological order.
Monday, October 23, 2017

Aphorism Number 86; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set!

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Let's not invade any place we can't pronounce.

Me too

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I choose, and very actively, to avoid Twitter like the Black Fuckin' Plague.  Like the leper colony of Molokai, or that gnarly one in Ce...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Arizona — Where The Old West Came To Die

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Arizona is where the Old West crawled off to die. Or if not to actually die, at least to establish a cranky early retirement.
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