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  • Remembering 9/11

    Where were you when the World Trade Centers came down? I was in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and here’s my story told WIM-style: http://goodmenproject.com/arts/goodmenplaylist-remembering-911/

  • Return of From the Stacks: More Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love

    This is a first for me, but Robbo left a comment that was so much better than what I had to say about the original Alice Cooper band’s last album that I had to reprint it. Here you go, wallow in the glory of true record geek love:

  • Even More Rock Briscoe

    Damnit. Now I wish I’d written a complete script.  Is this as funny as I think it is?

  • 143. And in These Days When Darkness Falls Early

    It was time. Jody deferred her plans to move to New York City because she wanted to spend a little more time with me, but the agency representing her was only so patient.

  • From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love

    This was my very first Alice Cooper album,  purchased around age ten or so at the Record Bar in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  Two very simple considerations factored into this purchase:

  • GMP Writing Prompts, Week of 9/9/13

    I’m looking for your take on the following for GMP’s arts and entertainment section.  Pieces should be between 500 and 1,500 words and conform to the Good Men Project Style Guidelines. I’m open to your pitches on any arts and entertainment topic, too.  Please forward your stories or ideas to me at jostaffordjr@gmail.com. Here are…

  • From the Stacks: Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    I picked this one up at a friends of the library sale in Savannah, Georgia back when I was a starving art school lad.  For those of you who think of Joe Cocker as that smelly looking guy who dances funny, you won’t be disappointed.  For those of you who recognize Joe Cocker as one…

  • New Piece Published in The Write Room

    Here’s a piece published this morning in an online literary magazine named The Write Room.  It’s a full-blown Why It Matters piece, but I never posted it here.  They even nailed WIM-style artwork. How about that? I wrote this piece exclusively for Revenge of the Daisy, which I’m still trying to get a publisher interested…

  • Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky I

    I love the film Rocky in a truly genuine way.  There’s no irony here, no wink — that movie is awesome. Today over on The Good Men Project I list eleven (twelve, really) things I’ve learned from Stallone’s finest.  Give it a read and add your own Rocky lessons in the comments. P.S. Don’t leave…

  • Deep Cuts: Eighties Songs I Was too Cool to Like (But I Really Did)

    The bad thing about being a teenager in a Black Sabbath t-shirt or gazing at your Capezios through lumps of eyeliner is that you have to hide in the closet all of the music that doesn’t fit your image.  Next thing you know you’re having nonsensical conversations about “Word Up” when you should just be…