Sui generis on the rocks: Christopher Hitchens (Revisited)
Sean MurphyThe best way to compliment a writer, as a reader, is to recommend their work to others. That I wholeheartedly do, and have done. The best way to compliment a…
Backs to the Future (Revisited)
TAKE A GUY. Let’s say he is about my age: old enough to own a place and pay almost all his bills sometimes; young enough to understand that he is…
Life in the Key of Song: Strawberry Fields Forever (Revisited)
Living is easy with eyes closed/Misunderstanding all you see, It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out/It doesn't matter much to me. Those aren't just defining lines…
The Day The Music Died, Redux (Revisited)
(12/9/2010) It was thirty years ago today... Where were you? I was in my mother's bedroom, kissing her goodbye before I caught the school bus, and I heard the horrible…
Five From Frank Zappa (Revisited)
December 4, 1993: impossible as it is (at least for me) to believe, Frank Zappa passed away (yet another casualty of the Big C.) twenty-two years ago, today. Zappa, to…
The Cream of Cream: Their 10 Best Songs (Revisited)
In honor of Jack Bruce’s recent passing, and as a companion piece to my tribute to the late bassist, here’s my take on the ten best Cream songs. This list…
Why Not Pink Floyd? (Revisited)
The Pink Floyd Discovery Studio Album Box Set I. See Saw I have recently listened to every single song from every single Pink Floyd album, so you don’t have to.…
Serpico and Turning Black Friday into Good Friday
Look at that dude. Pacino, clean-shaven and short-haired as the movie begins, sports the best 'stache of the decade, then goes goatee, then gets full facial (hair and head), all…
My Most Embarrassing Thanksgiving Memory? (Revisited)
Question: What was your most embarrassing Thanksgiving moment ever? Answer: I’ve got nothing here. I mean, I was raised in an Irish-Italian Catholic household so there were two things we…
The Whiteness of the Whale: Remembering The White Album (Revisited)
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar…