Cerphe’s Up
Sean MurphyAs I was inserting the picture, above, of Cerphe from the late ’70s, when he was...
Free At Last
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death...
A Half-Assed Howard Beale or, The Crocodile Tears of a Clown
Right now Paddy Chayefsky is: a. Rolling over in his grave b. High-fiving Peter Finch...
Next Up: Absinthe is the new Ginkgo biloba
Great news for all diligent web-surfers, I mean office workers, here. Check it out: Facebook,...
Got A Beef? Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do
As T.S. Eliot portentously opined: April is the cruelest month. Apparently someone once pulled an April...
Reaching the End of the Internet, One Affair At A Time…
So, I’m already married to the Internet, but this was so good I felt like I just...
Get Your Goat or, Dancing With Mr. G.
Is 2009 going to be the year of the Goat? Let’s hope so. And no,...
Jim Webb: Still Fighting
Not a week ago I was thinking to myself how quiet, even absent from the scene,...
The Strange Case of Dr. Dennis and Mr. Miller
Dennis Miller: The HBO Comedy Specials: Review from PopMatters 3/31/09: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/71771-the-strange-case-of-dr.-dennis-and-mr.-miller/ At issue is not...
Steven Wilson: Appetite for Construction
To point out the superhuman scale Steven Wilson operates on is like pondering whether Donald Trump’s...