Rick Quinn

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Writer (about music & such)/Frequently flummoxed by these questions pointing me in a crooked line/Pop culture junkie/Lapsed theologian/Aspiring cultural critic https://www.popmatters.com/author/rick-quinn

New York Times headline reads "U.S. Considers Witholding H.I.V. Aid Uless Zambia Expands Minerals Access"
The album cover of U2’s The Joshua Tree on a Now Playing display stand with a lit candle in front of the album.
Cover of U2 Achtung Baby album.
A box set of DVDs of the Wiseguy series.
New York Times editorial by Ross Douthat titled: Mamdani's Victory is Less Significant Than You Think: New York's next mayor won't save the Democrats.
A quote from Flannery O'Connor that says, It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them -- in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries." This is found in the second chapter of David Dark's Everyday Apocalypse
The books: We Become What We Normalize by David Dark and What Can We Hope For? by Richard Rorty on a wooden table.
The cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller album.
An empty Mike's Hard Lemonade bottle with a pink fluorescent floss pick stick in the bottle opening.
The book, The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman" by Niko Stratis sitting on an end table.
What Can We Hope For? Essays on Politics by Richard Rorty.
A set of books including On Freedom, Who's Afraid of Gender?, Persepolis, Riot Days, How to Fight Racism, We Become What We Normalize.
Book cover if On Freedom by Timothy Snyder.
Dolly Parton's 1968 album Just Because I Am A Woman.
The album cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call. On the cover, Cave is pictured in front of a brick wall and he is looking to his upper right (our upper left). Above the album in the upper left is a candle with the iconic picture of Johnny Cash flipping a bird in concert.
Cover of issue 1 of Spectrum by Rick Quinn and Dave Chisholm. The title separates two pictures. The top picture is a close up of a multicolored butterfly wing. The bottom image is a side profile of a red headed young woman with headphones and eyes closed.
A copy of David Dark's book, We Become What We Normalize held by hand with a bookshelf in the background.
Elvis Presley on the set of the 1968 NBC comeback special wearing a black leather suit centered in a dark red backdrop behind the studio audience. Elvis' back is turned to the camera, and a red guitar strap is over his back, holding an electric guitar. Presley is grinning, and his face is partially turned toward the camera. Photo credit Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images