It never occurred to me that my love of the Gin Blossoms’ “New Miserable Experience” was something I should be ashamed of until I wrote a short story for a Loft class in 2006. The…
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The Sins of My CD Collection
Last night I hosted Rock & Roll Bookclub at Supergenius HQ. Even though we’ve been down two members for a few months due to teen volleyball sensations and their hectic schedules, it is still one…
20 Years On I Still Believe What Weezer Sang on The Blue Album
So today Weezer’s “Blue Album” is twenty years old. I cannot let any of the anniversaries of my personal cultural touchstones go unremarked. This is one of the advantages of making it to fortysomething. You…
A History of Swinging Parties
The first time I went to Midway Stadium it was with my friend Anderla to see Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, and Matthew Sweet. It was glorious and we serendipitously ran into a gaggle of guys…
I Really Did Coo With Joy
On the very first day I became an iPhone owner, I promptly named the device Ziggy after the computer that helps Sam Beckett leap from life to life, putting things right, that once went wrong…
Pre-Dawn Stream-of-Consciousness Ramblings, Mostly About Rock & Roll
As I type this sentence it is 5:55 a.m. I’ve been awake for 55 minutes, out of bed for 25 of those. In an odd bit of coincidence or perhaps it was foreshadowing, Mr. Coffee…