What’s next? Ozzy was really just snorting baking powder?
Sean MurphyFrom Rolling Stone, an update on the infamous M&M story here: We finally have proof of the mother of all insane tour rider demands, Van Halen’s request for “No Brown…
Songs of the Day: 2:30-3:30 PM, EST, circa 1975
First off, if we can all agree that the Internet is the greatest thing ever invented, we can certainly acknowledge that YouTube is one of the best things the Internet…
Song of the Day: The Black Keys
More on this, later. But to end any sense of suspense: The Black Keys made far and away the best album of the past year, Attack and Release. Put…
What Would Larry David Do?
mwine122: fucktacular. my cellphone just fell in the toilet. mwine122: I am displeased. bullmurph: omg. the ultimate nightmare mwine122: I'm gonna lose all my numbers. I'm sure of it. bullmurph:…
Work Pig: Bringing Home the Bacon
Enough good things really can't be said about Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson, also known as The Kids in the Hall. I celebrated…
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life…
Roger Cohen, again. One needs to be either peculiarly observant or exceedingly self-absorbed to behold, in another's writing, traces of one's own. But for the second time in one…
William Dowd, RIP–and some thoughts about the harpsichord
A life well spent? That's the goal, isn't it? For any of us. Not necessarily to be enshrined in a newspaper's obituary (although few people would protest such a proposition),…
Song of the Day: Mingus, “Pithecanthropus Erectus”
You know, this picture has always killed me. It pretty much says everything that needs to be said about Creationism, the Religious Right, and the intelligence-insulting "debate" about teaching Intelligent…
Introducing MWine122
mwine122: What do you make of this: mwine122: (from Chris Kraus' introductory essay from Pornocracy, the novel that is a companion piece to Catherine Breillat's film, Anatomy of Hell)…
It’s All Part of Der Process
From Andrew Sullivan's invaluable blog (TheDailyDish), comes the following (quoted from Roger Cohen's typically sane and salient perspective--this one, here is must reading--via The New York Times): Of the 770 detainees…