Last week, like most everyone in my Twitter feed, I watched “Downton Abbey” when it was on at 8 p.m. Central Time. It was a dramatic, emotional episode and watching it with Twitter was all…
Posts tagged Whiny
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…
Mashed potatoes & crunchy guitars
Bah. I’ve had a bad day. Okay it probably hasn’t been so much bad as annoying and cranky-making. I don’t want to use the badge bad day on this kind of day. You have to…
A list of books everyone loved that I disliked so much it makes me think I should stop reading popular books
The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath On the Road by Jack Kerouac Everything by Hemingway except A Moveable Feast The Night…
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…
Unpopular opinions
Yesterday on twitter, Steve announced that Bon Iver was boring and Kurtis agreed with him. I was so happy to see them proclaiming such blasphemy out in the public sphere that I quickly jumped on…