Radio Days — Then and Now: January 1, 2023
During my undergraduate years, I spent just about every New Year’s Eve on the air at student-run radio station WWSP-90FM. It was my idea to commit the programming that day to counting down the station’s Top 90 albums of the year … Continue reading Radio Days — Then and Now: January 1, 2023
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #98 to #96
98. The J. Geils Band, Love Stinks (1980) The career boost sought by the J. Geils Band had worked, more or less. After several years on Atlantic Records, they jumped to EMI based on the promise that they’d get more … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #98 to #96
Outside Reading — Six from 2022
Saturdays are when I use my little corner of the digital world to excitedly redirect eyes to the recent writing of others. As the year comes to a close, I’ll offer encore hyperlinks to the following six pieces, presented more … Continue reading Outside Reading — Six from 2022
Five Songs from 2022
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
Top Ten Albums of 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
Beers I Have Known — 3 Sheeps Brewing 15-2 Stout
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
Then Playing — She Said; The Corn Is Green; Aftersun
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
Now Playing — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
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
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #101 to #99
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
Outside Reading — The Road Is So Long edition
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
Coffee for Two 