So . . . nearly a year after getting the book in hardcover and like nine days after downloading the audiobook read by Mary Lucia, I’ve finished Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements…
Posts tagged Mary Lucia
Soundtrack By Mary
One of the things I really, really liked about that Chrissie Hynde memoir that has me still trying to find words to write about is how much she loved the radio. A lot of the…
Losing Mary
It took me eight months of having this here website before I mentioned Mary Lucia, which may not seem significant. But you gotta remember that was back in 2001 and, well, I don’t know Mary…
On this Galentine’s Day I’m celebrating The Current & Women Who Love the Rock & Roll
According to Councilwoman Leslie Knope of Pawnee, Indiana today is Galentine’s Day. It’s the day before Valentine’s Day when you celebrate all the smart, fabulous women in your life. On this Galentine’s Day, I would…
The autumn of our Jackson Browneyness
Here’s the thing. I love The Current, that’s no secret. Jill & Steve in the morning, Barb Abney, St. Mary Lucia of Airwaves. I love it all. So I’m not blaming the radio station for…
Radio sweetheart
I’ve had a long illustrious career in radio. There was that one time in 1995 when I was on some Eau Claire radio station’s morning talk-radio program for dissing hard on Paul Revere & The…
Laurie Lindeen at 89.3 The Current’s Fakebook
Do you ever get so full of joy that you’re pretty sure you are going to burst right out of your skin? It was every thing I could do last night to stay in my…
Serendipity keeps me sane or, How Spoon nearly killed me
I woke up this morning with the teeniest, tiniest snippet of a song floating through my brain. Over and over again my head was singing “they’ll put you in a cage, ba ba something bye…
what’cha gonna spend your free life on?
since friday, i have been listening to the Live Current Vol. 1 CD on repeat. specifically, i’ve been listening to Dan Wilson’s song “Free Life.” i am in love with this song. i’m generally a…
what i don’t like about you
ok, (sorry UH) but i was just listening to the Klosterman piece on The Current, and while it hasn’t made me fall head over heels in love with Klosterman, it has made me believe that…