Here’s the scenario: You’re on a cross country trip when your car breaks down. You reach for your cell phone to call AAA, but the battery is dead. After some compulsory cussing, […]
Choose and Defend: Wrestle a Bear, a Bare, or a Barry?
Deep Cuts: Early Childhood Favorites
Man, I’ve been doing this “Why It Matters” bit a long time. Are you still listening?
On Diffuser: Are You an Indie Elitist?
If you’ve been reading along for any amount of time, you know that I’m willing to ‘fess up to my musical sins and vices. I’ve postured as a Guy In Black T-Shirt […]
212. No More of That Jazz
My earliest birthday memories are no more than fragments: A Winnie the Pooh cake my aunt and my mother made for me; a two-layer cake with the Seven Dwarfs seated around its […]
Throw Beck Thursday: Fragments for a New Years Story
Last year at this time I was working on a new years story when I received word that a friend and regular reader died just after Christmas. The news shut me down: […]
From The Stacks: Carole King-Tapestry
Carole King’s Tapestry is a classic, and one of the best selling albums of all time. This is not that album.
156. Fragments for a New Years Story
[Following is the piece that I was working on when I learned that Laura B. was gone. It hurt so much, knowing that she’d never read it and leave one of her […]
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 […]
108. These City Lights, They Shine as Silver and Gold
I know it’s fashionable to claim a lifetime hatred for U2, but let’s be honest: If everyone always hated them how did they take over the world?
Don Cornelius: 1936-2012
Don Cornelius, creator and host of Soul Train, appears to have killed himself at age 75. Gunshot to the head, ugly way to go. I’ll be interested to learn over the next […]
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