Friday, April 18, 2025

La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: How Do You Say "What's in a Name" in Yiddish? Edition

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So the other day I became quite insufferably pleased with myself. Why, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Basically, it started when I was ...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Songs I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved (an Occasional Series): Special Homage to "The Bickersons" Edition

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[I originally ran a version of this back in 2012; I'm re-upping it because a) it gives me an excuse to post that utterly fab Del Amitri ...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Nancy's Record Collection (and Mine): Special "Early Glimmer Twins" Edition

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From Keith Richards ' vastly entertaining 2011 autobiography: Mick and I spent months and months trying to write before we had anyth...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Tuesday's Cartoon Chuckle

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Interesting music resumes on the morrow. 😎
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Monday, April 14, 2025

You Know, Some Days I Kinda Miss MTV. (I Keed, I Keed!!!)

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Yipes -- it's the late Dan Hartman 's ragingly beautiful "I Can Dream About You," as lip-synched and danced by The Sorels ...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special "A Zissen Pesach, Everybody!" Edition

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Well, the Passover holiday begins on Saturday night, and in its honor, I've got a special treat for the (ahem) Red Sea Pedestrians among...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

I Don't Think This Relationship Can Be Saved

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From the forthcoming album I'll See Myself Out , please enjoy the amusingly yclept Elvis Eno and the sublimely tragicomic love song tha...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Clem Burke 1954 - 2025

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Another great one gone way too soon. Burke was pretty obviously the best drummer to have emerged from the whole late 70s/early 80s punk...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2025

What Makes the Elon Guard His Musk…

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...in the misty morn and the dusky dusk? Hey, i dunno. But seriously -- this is obviously the greatest album cover of all time. (Click on ...
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Monday, April 07, 2025

We'll Always Have Amsterdam!

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So yes, we got back to the USA safely last night, without being renditioned to some nightmarish gulag in Central America, so you won't h...
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