This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. Because of a task I’m gladly — gratefully even — taking on this week, my mind is regularly … Continue reading Radio Days — 90FM’s Top 35 for August 9, 1991
317. Violent Femmes, Hallowed Ground (1984) “We’ve been betraying people since the second album,” Gordon Gano told the Orlando Sentinel a few years after the Violent Femmes’ sophomore release. “With every album, people come up to me and say things … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #317 to #315
Unvaxxed, Unmasked and Putting Our Kids at Risk by Jessica Valenti And here we are, stalled out in the emergence from a devastating pandemic — and indeed regressing — almost entirely because insidious opportunists and complete crackpots, most residing on … Continue reading Outside Reading — Delta Force edition
On the song “Superhero,” Ani Difranco writes about the experience of falling in love despite her determination to avoid such entanglements. Among its lyrics is a couplet that captures the way the world seems to transform around anyone who’s so … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Chubby and the Gang, “I Hate the Radio”
Lucy Dacus writes songs as if her heart depends on it. On the new album Home Video, her third full-length studio effort, Dacus excavates her past. By her own reckoning, the lyrics across the album are almost entirely preoccupied with … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Home Video
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. Look, the kid’s got a point. Other entries in this series can be found by clicking on the … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Dungeons and Dragons “Who Needs to Hang Around?” print ad
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. Thanks to the incessant prodding towards reminiscence perpetrated by the the various social … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — Birdsong Brewing Co. Jalapeno Pale Ale
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. Among the many innovations to superhero storytelling in the foundational Marvel … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross
320. Meat Puppets, Up On the Sun (1985) Any album describe as the “beer and pot” album in a band’s discography is sure to be a success on college radio, not that Meat Puppets necessarily needed the appeal of implied … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #320 to #318
The Superhumanity of Simone Biles by Will Leitch Simone Biles was abandoned by American Olympic officials, and the torment hasn’t stopped by Sally Jenkins I have zero patience for anyone second-guessing Simone Biles’s decision to withdraw from competition in Tokyo. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Simone Says edition
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