Generally, I’m the type of person who wakes up in the morning and gets right out of bed. I don’t lollygag under the covers once I’m awake. I’m not a soak up the glory of…
Date Archives January 2013
The Who as an AP History lesson regarding Communism
Last night the Rock & Roll Booklub gathered together to discuss Pete Townshend’s autobiography Who I Am?. It is long and even though I did not finish it in time, we still had a great…
Two Kinds of People or, I think I’m getting a cold
I like to joke that there are two kinds of people in those world: those who don’t mind being lumped into a group based on some arbitrary measurement and boring stick in the muds. Boring…
Fighting Atrophy
In “The Breakfast Club” Ally Sheedy has that famous line about how “when you grow up, your heart dies.” For a long time I worried that because rock & roll has become super boring in…
Letting Go of a Childhood Dream: The Raspberry Beret Edition
Once upon a time I wrote a post on the old blogging platform Vox about things I always wanted to do because of certain songs I love. For instance, when I was in high school…
Part Scooby Doo, Part Stand By Me & Totally Awesome
One of the things I learned in the bajillion writing classes I took at The Loft is that when fiction is really good it can teach you things without ever seeming like a lecture or…