Archive for December 2010
Frontier Mixology: The Frontier Psychiatrist
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: December 31, 2010
Happy New Year! Far be it from us to suggest a toast, let alone to whom. That said, in honor of FP’s first year and in gratitude for the platform it has provided for the antique ramblings of your humble cocktail enthusiast, perhaps a raise of the glass with an original, eponymous cocktail? The Frontier [...]
Osnat’s Story – Nonfiction by Daniel F. Levin (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2010
- In: Essays
- 5 Comments
If you were a Jewish teen growing up in the DC area in the 90’s, chances are you may have gone on an Israeli summer teen tour. And if you went on an Israeli summer teen tour, chances are you went on that behemoth of Israeli teen tour franchises, Masada. I actually tried to avoid [...]
Talking to Girls about Duran Duran – Review by Will Kenton (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2010
What can you do with pop music? If you’re George Michael circa 1983 sometimes it wakes you up in the morning with the bass line, a ray of sunshine. Pop stars from Elvis to Lady GaGa and their fans have considered pop music the optimal method to confuse the shit out of old folks. According [...]
The First Class Passenger – Nonfiction by Django Haskins (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2010
- In: Essays
- 9 Comments
[Welcome to Literary Frontier, FP's new weekly showcase of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Today we're thrilled to debut Django Haskins, a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. This column is the first of three excerpts from The First Class Passenger, a biography of his great-grandfather.] PART ONE On 10 April 1912, slender, sandy-haired Karl Howell Behr, [...]
The First Class Passenger – Nonfiction by Django Haskins (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2010
[Today on Literary Frontier, we continue with an excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr and his adventures aboard the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. If you missed last week's installment, here's Part One.] PART TWO As the lifeboat creaked its way down [...]
The First Class Passenger – Nonfiction by Django Haskins (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2010
[Today on Literary Frontier, our third and final excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr, survivor of the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. In case you missed them, check out Part One and Part Two.] PART THREE For those in Titanic‘s lifeboats, the [...]
Frontier Cyclist, vol. 23 – Bike Math (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
- In: Bikes
- 6 Comments
The mathematics of living is invisible, ghosted like dry erase marker on my father’s whiteboard. The mathematics of bicycling, however, is about to be much, much clearer. Bike academia is back! When I was a kid, my mathematician father had his office in our basement. One wall was dominated by a whiteboard, which had not [...]
Frontier Cyclist vol. 15 – Maxims of Biking (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
[Today we're thrilled to have a guest cycling post by Jeff Wilser, acclaimed author and syndicated columnist, expert on the art of modern manhood, and perhaps the only ex-Marine with a Master's degree in Creative Writing.] A year ago I switched to biking. It seemed like the thing to do: better for the planet, better [...]
Frontier Cyclist, vol. 20 – 1,600 Mile Summer (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
- In: Bikes
- 2 Comments
[Our weekly urban cycling column appears on Tuesdays] Last year I broke two of my front teeth in a bike crash. I was drunk; the street, icy. — After the crash, I didn’t ride for a few days. But pretty soon, within a week or two, really, I was back at it again. Now I ride [...]
Frontier Cyclist – An Englishman Bikes in New York
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 28, 2010
- In: Bikes
- 3 Comments
For the aspiring cyclist Mark Twain has this solitary piece of advice: tackle “one villainy…at a time.”Although I am a knowledgeable rider, Twain’s counsel resonates as an apt description of my cycling experience in New York: I’m an Englishman who has lately been forced onto the pot-holed roads by escalating subway costs (and an expanding [...]
