Do I have to do this all over again? Didn’t I do it right the first time? Do I have to do this all over again? Oh, how many times do I have to make this climb? Didn’t I? Didn’t I? OK well that sounds a whole lot more fatalistic than this generally happy and…
The Kinks’s previous album, the exquisite The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society, certainly didn’t deliver on the commercial front, did it? Never mind that it would go on to become the most acclaimed and biggest selling non-compilation album of their careers… Still, that must have smarted a bit for the Ray and the…
(Post title courtesy of one G. Costanza) This is a fascinating article… In my search for information about marathon running, I came across this New Yorker story about Kip Litton (magnificently written by Mark Singer), a Michigan dentist who apparently cheated his way to the top of several 26.2 mile runs. The Marathon details are…
Why are some of these Ultra Conservatives so dead-set hardcore on redefining “rape”? As if “rape” is some nebulously derived concept, recently ripped from George Soros’s hard drive and used to secretly fund Planned Parenthood or something. Are they totally fucking high? Are they indulging their inner fears and hatred of women? Are they actively…
The 1978 Kiss “solo” albums are pretty infamous for how they were marketed, developed, and received, rather than for the quality of the released product. They all shipped Platinum, which means the distributor released over a million copies of each of the four records… and when most of them didn’t sell all that great, they…
Egypt erupted into civil conflict as Mubarak cracked down on his people and all we heard from the “rebels” was ‘Where is the world? Where is America??’ Same with Libya and Ghadafi. ‘Why isn’t America helping??’ Then at the first opportunity these animals storm our embassy and slaughter our citizens. FUCK THESE PEOPLE. Syria can…
One of the most endearing elements of Thin Lizzy’s legacy is that you could never quite pigeonhole them with a single sound. They ran the gamut from their early folk-rock to dalliances in R&B, FM radio rock, soulful balladry, near metal intensity, and nearly everywhere between all points in their career. The common thread woven…
Well I’m back from running the Disneyland Half Marathon, spending 5 nights in Southern California doing the whole tourist experience: sightseeing, sun-worshipping, marveling at the actual existence of mountains, eating way too much, staring down hyper-inflated security guys at House of Blues in Hollywood, plenty of funky alcoholic beverages, machaca!, crashing rooftop parties, recreating classic…
Technically, this is a quick update from 35,000 feet above Seymour, TX. God bless in-flight Wifi. Anyway, I loathe typing on an iPad as the gimped Apple archtitecture responds to keystrokes much slower than I can type. Grr. So I refrained from any updates while I was away. God knows, I tried… Anyway, as a…