Archive - Ramble

Is Xi Jinping Funny?

An official investigation into "Xi-style" humor

Aug 20, 2025 • Alexander Boyd

July 2025

Cycling's Taliban Retakes Kabul

NBC's post-game show is a pox on an all-time Tour de France, and Lance Armstrong is (partly) to blame.

Jul 18, 2025 • Alexander Boyd

March 2025

Pout With Lipstick Red

A walk near 14th St.

Mar 22, 2025 • Alexander Boyd

December 2024

The Billows and The Sky

A game day in Auburn, and its aftermath

Dec 1, 2024 • Alexander Boyd

November 2024

Election night in Washington, D.C.

Nov 6, 2024 • Alexander Boyd

September 2023

The Laugh Track

The last purple of a full dusk prepares for slumber.

Sep 1, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

August 2023

Fred is burning newspaper inserts on his front porch.

Aug 13, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

July 2023

Love by Eileen Chang

On Looping Instance

Jul 20, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

You've Had A Premonition

a scene, flash fiction

Jul 4, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

June 2023

My today, told in imitation of a Western

Jun 28, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

I’d been of plan to write a navel-gazing piece about the view from our back porch.

Jun 27, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

Saffron Tagliatelle

A malarial wet portends thunder and the fevered return of memory.

Jun 24, 2023 • Alexander Boyd

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