As the curtain falls on 2022, tradition holds that I offer up a few of the songs released during the span of the calendar coming off the wall. Steering away from the artists who were represented in yesterday’s tally of … Continue reading Five Songs from 2022
After sometimes getting lost in the constant stream of new music that comes out, I worked a little harder at really listening to everything that came my way this year. The introduction of the Medium Rotation feature was a way … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2022
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. In our house, Christmas is something you earn. Rather than striving for a … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — 3 Sheeps Brewing 15-2 Stout
She Said (Maria Schrader, 2022). This journalism procedural is adapted from Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book of the same name which recounted their pursuit of the blockbuster New York Times story that exposed years of sexual predation by producer … Continue reading Then Playing — She Said; The Corn Is Green; Aftersun
I truly believe Rian Johnson has found the character he could writer and direct exclusively for the remainder of his days and be satsisfied all the way. Johnson’s 2019 feature, Knives Out, introduced Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), a master detective … Continue reading Now Playing — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
101. Foreigner, 4 (1981) For anyone who want to understand — really, really know — what album-rock radio sounded like in the nineteen-eighties, particularly the first half before hair metal came prancing in to knock the system askew, Foreigner’s 4 … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #101 to #99
A Warm Slice of Pizza in a Bombarded City by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak I understand that I operate with a level of privilege, and I try not to take it for granted. As my household gets to pause … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Road Is So Long edition
Funky boys and girls who’ve secured their place on the Nice list know that the jolly man coming down their chimneys on Christmas Eve doesn’t hail from the North Pole. Instead, a proud son of Cincinnati who plays the bass … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Bootsy Collins, “Here 4 a Reason”
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. As devoted reader of the heady sci-fi superhero series Nexus beginning … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — World’s Finest by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude
VARIOUS ARTISTS Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album (self-released) — Starting with the surprise inclusion of 7-inch with two new tunes in the complete-discography box set Start Together as means of teasing their comeback, the second coming … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album; CAZIMI
Coffee for Two 