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  • 165. The Waiting is the Hardest Part

    We rose before the sun, humid November chill biting at us all the way to the shower. The bathroom steamed up quickly. I  didn’t want to get out, but we were due on Tybee Island by 6 a.m. It was time for Jody and me to become movie stars.

  • From the Stacks: Adam Stag Party Special Number 3

    Oh, the party record. It’s such a foreign idea, inviting over a bunch of guys, busting out the highball glasses and the Vienna sausages stabbed with ornamental toothpics and listening to an album full of dirty jokes.

  • James’s Ireland Jameson Adventure, Part 1

    I’m off an adventure soon on behalf of The Good Men Project. A couple of colleagues and I are going to Ireland courtesy of the good folks at Jameson to see what a real St. Patty’s is all about. While I’m there I’ll be live tweeting, etc., and before I go I’ll make sure Wimbot…

  • From the Stacks: David Bowie – Star (White Vinyl)

    Bowie was both busy and not so busy in 1978. In terms of new material it was a dry year separating Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), two of the three brilliant Berlin albums. On the other hand, in 1978 he released Stage, a successful attempt to give the fans a better live album than 1974’s David…

  • Deep Cuts: Last Songs

    Wow, last moments get a lot of action in music land. I have at least 150 “last” songs on my playlist, and that doesn’t include whatever’s in my vinyl stacks that remains to be digitized. I guess that’s not a big surprise. The end of things is a big deal: just ask Jim Morrison, beautiful…

  • 164. The Untimely Death of Corporal Otis Stafford

    Jody and I made the cut. We were to report to Tybee Island on Saturday at 6 a.m. to shoot our big scene. It was November, and we were going to be nude on a beach.

  • From The Stacks: Herbie Mann – Push Push

    Oh, man. We have a new contender for champion of the Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame. If you’ve ever wanted to relive the shame and embarrassment of seeing your dad naked, keep Herbie Mann’s Push Push on hand.

  • Deep Cuts: Laura Songs

    I’m at a point in the Why It Matters story that I’ve been waiting to get to for a very long time. This story arc has been hanging out there for months, and every time I thought about it my next thought was “I can’t wait for Laura B. to read this.” She never will,…

  • New Piece on AARP Website

    Well, not new. This piece ran last week on The Good Men Project, but the AARP website just picked it up so it’s new to them. And even before its GMP run, it appeared here in less family-friendly form as “Susan Sarandon, Are You Listening?” (Note: She hasn’t called yet, but I’m a patient guy.)…

  • 163. But the Music Makes Her Want to be the Story

    A movie came to town. This was big news in little Savannah, not that this was the first film shot in the poor man’s Charleston. The fountain in Forsythe Park was featured in a key scene of Burt Reynolds’s Gator, so we had that going for us.