The Doors: America’s Star-Spangled Band
Sean MurphyThe 4th of July presents an at least two irresistible reasons to talk about The Doors. One: Jim Morrison took his last bath on July 3, 1971 in Paris. R.I.P. Lizard King.…
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass…
Quitting? Wow. What a contemptible coward and laughable fraud she is. (And if this "plan" is so she can cry foul at the mean nasty (liberal) media for quoting people…
Goldman Sachs: It’s Hard Out Here for a Vampiring Pimp
Kind of like the situation in Guantanamo, it seems that all that can be said has been said of the soul-raping of American citizens by the Wall Street masters of…
The Washington Post’s slow, agonizing death spiral
As the once proud (or at least respectable) institution rots, the sights and smells become impossible to ignore. Charles Kaiser reports the latest debacle, one that makes the Post's transparent…
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
I've said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo (both the conditions there and the circumstances that brought people there) here and here. But…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of…
Goodnight Sweet Princess
I grew up in the '70s. Did you?
Sketches of Spain: Perfection Turns 50
From Popmatters. Miles Davis is responsible for so much incredible music that at times it’s overwhelming to grapple with his legacy. To be certain, no one who knows anything can…
Mr. Bungle’s California: Ten Years Later
PopMatters keeps the party going, plowing through the calendar year of 1999, reminiscing about important albums that dropped that year. For my part, I'm tackling the yang to Fantomas' yin:…
Fantômas: 10 Years Later
A writer should always set challenges: it keeps things interesting and guards against formulaic and predictable assessments. Still, as Harry Callahan sagely observed, "A man's gotta know his limitations." I…