But first: Are You Experienced?
Sean MurphyAh, if only one could come home to packages like this every evening. Wait, check that. That would be too much of a good thing. Who could handle sensory overload…
Ali Farka Touré’s Finished Business
There are usually two distinctive types of posthumous releases in music. The first and more frequent is the one that makes you cringe, often involving the rapacious pillaging of the…
2000-2009: Let’s Break it Down (Epilogue)
So, the recent discussion of the Top 50 albums of the last decade was supposed to end, as it began, with a sampling of songs. The introductory entry covered 2000-2004;…
Oh, and reducing the debt, too.
An ostensibly rhetorical question I read (and get asked) quite often these days is "Why bother?" Why bother getting invested in politics? Why bother reading all those papers and blogs…
Did You Get The Knack?
Look at that guy. You know which one I'm talking about. You've got three surfer dude boys in the band and the frontman with the thousand yard smirk. You know that…
Charles Krauthammer is an Immoral Cretin
First, let's try to get a handle on what constitutes the GOP braintrust as it's currently constructed. In short, it's sort of like the Three Stooges. No really. First, you…
She’s Got Her Whole World In Her Hand
Sarah Palin has officially out-cliched cliche. You can no longer even use the lazy --if entirely accurate and appropriate-- depictions like "jumped the shark" or "stranger than fiction" or "a…
For J.D. Salinger, Jethro Tull and Me
She nodded. "Make it extraordinarily squalid and moving," she suggested. "Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it,…