My daughter just turned eighteen years old.
Notes For A Last Act
From The Stacks: Albert Brooks, ‘A Star Is Bought’
Sometimes I look at an album cover and my first thought is, “How much did that cost?”
Deep Cuts: Songs For the Stuff In Your Life
Americans love stuff.
Bait Ranch
Fiction The thing nobody tells you about being dead is that it’s so boring.
From The Stacks: King Biscuit Boy
The Meters earned a 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination last week, which is as good of a reason as any to talk about King Biscuit Boy.
Deep Cuts: Football Songs
I might not be much of a football fan, but there’s always music. But digging through my digital stacks to put together a football playlist turned out to be one of my […]
Confessions Of An Apathetic Football Fan
What follows is an accounting of nearly 50 years of football fandom, if it can be called that.
From The Stacks: ‘Here Come…The City Folk’
My Saturday routine revolves around record stores.
Deep Cuts: Songs For Letters
Is the letter a lost art? The obvious answer is yes; after all, when was the last time you wrote or received a letter? E-mails don’t carry the same weight, and tweets […]
Dope Live at Sacramento’s Ace of Spades, 10/3/2017
Sacramento has always been a good town for shows, but it just keeps getting better.
