Message to Obama: This is This
I guess there are a few suckers, like myself, who are holding out hope that the worst kept secret in Washington (i.e., the expected announcement from our president about another…
I guess there are a few suckers, like myself, who are holding out hope that the worst kept secret in Washington (i.e., the expected announcement from our president about another…
25 Years Ago, this weekend. Wow.
Best live album ever? Who cares. What is beyond dispute is that 1970’s Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out is certainly the best live album the Rolling Stones ever recorded.…
Part One: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... First, and appropriately, a confession. The title is both a tribute to, and an outright plagiarism of Hunter S. Thompson's masterful…
Kelpie!! If that were at all visible, you'd clearly see the fox, mere feet away from my car as I pulled off the Dulles Greenway (I thought foxes were nocturnal,…
I'm so proud of my Pops. Last night, quite out of the blue (or, out of the black as the case may be), he said he had to ask me…
Let us not forget, it’s the “Blue Album”. Before it was the cassette, the eight-track, CD or digital download, it was a record, played on things called record players. And…
As obstreperously opposed to the death penalty as I remain, it is nevertheless difficult to feel uncomplicated emotions regarding the execution of John Allen Muhammad. I --and any individual living…
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, 1st Movement Grant Green, “Exodus” Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Balm in Gilead” John Coltrane, “Psalm” Philip Glass, “String Quartet No. 5” Jimi Hendrix, “Beginnings” Bob…
Anyone who knows anything knows Tom Tancredo is a clown. A typical bullying, blustery blowhard, the prototypical GOP platform-parroting buffoon. He is also, naturally, a chickenhawk, and he just got…