The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in The World: Liver Than They’ll Ever Be
Sean MurphyBest 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.…
The Catholic Church is Decadent and Depraved
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…
Weekend Fun with the Cellphone Cam…
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,…
Paint It Black (Sabbath)
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…
For You Blue: Remembering The Beatles’ “Blue Album”
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…
There’s Just A Meanness In This World
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…
Ten Songs To Celebrate The Fall of the Wall
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…
Markos Moulitsas KO’S Tom Tancredo: Instant Classic
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…
Happy Birthday, Sesame Street
Sesame Street turns 40! Wow. USA Today has a nice piece celebrating the show. I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at old clips. Here are a handful that…
The Messiah Will Come Again
No, not that Messiah. This Messiah: Actually, that's not true. We won't see Roy Buchanan again, since he left us back in 1988. Yet another unspeakably distressing musician suicide. Or was…