Beers I Have Known — Stiegl Raspberry Radler
This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. I am lucky enough to have friends who are generous, compelled to share … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — Stiegl Raspberry Radler
While Jesus is saving I’m spending all my grace
Sixty-seventh in a series…. Continue reading While Jesus is saving I’m spending all my grace
Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition
The Girl in the Kent State Photo by Patricia McCormick More than fifty years after the Kent State shootings, Patricia McCormick profiles the girl who was at the center of the most famous photo of the government’s crime against the … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition
Laughing Matters — Hardware Wars
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. May the farce be … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Hardware Wars
Radio Days — Certain Damage
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. During my college radio days, we were always hungry to hear as much new music as possible. … Continue reading Radio Days — Certain Damage
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #359 to #357
359. The B-52’s, Mesopotamia (1982) After two full-length studio albums, the B-52’s had exhausted their backlog of original songs. Gary Kurfirst, the band’s manager, insisted that shouldn’t stop them from getting to work on a third record. His urgency to … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #359 to #357
Outside Reading — This Island Earth Doesn’t Shine for Me Anymore
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: The oral history by Adam Carston The big-screen iteration of Mystery Science Theater 3000 hardly seems to have enough significance to merit a lengthy oral history on the occasion of its anniversary, but I’m … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Island Earth Doesn’t Shine for Me Anymore
This Week’s Model — Molly Burch, “Control”
Now that we’re more than a year past the point when practically the entirety of the live music business shut down, it will be interesting to see if there are discernible impacts on the release of studio efforts. Maybe Molly … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Molly Burch, “Control”
The Art of the Sell — Stevie Wonder for TDK
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. If Stevie says it’s an amazing music machine, I believe him. This commercial makes me crave the … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Stevie Wonder for TDK
My Misspent Youth — Green Lantern by Denny O’Neil and Joe Staton
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. When I went all in on superhero comics, I immediately set … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Green Lantern by Denny O’Neil and Joe Staton
