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David Swanson
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New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd
Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
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September 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
March 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“The first time I laid eyes on the New York Dolls, they were drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of the Dancers. David Johansen had lost the high heel from one of his shoes."

In 1975 Paul Nelson went deep on David Johansen and the Dolls:
www.villagevoice.com/valley-of-th...
March 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Hollywood's Uncommon Everyman: Much to his Chagrin, Gene Hackman is a Star"

A sprawling profile from the New York Times Magazine, 1989
www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/m...
February 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"The Execution of the Doge" by Delacroix, for no reason
February 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
February 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is from 1922:
January 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
January 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And Greenland will be even smaller once the glaciers melt
January 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Some Scottish folks did the same at the Maeshowe Chambered Cairn in Orkney
December 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
For what it's worth, this story about Trump and LT is from forty years ago:
www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/s...
May 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
To Steve Albini, music legend and Notable Sandwich icon:
theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sa...
May 9, 2024 at 3:22 PM
February 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM
RIP
November 30, 2023 at 3:50 PM