This is my plea to all rockstars past, present, and future: If you ever write a book about rockstardom please, please, please, pretty please with cocaine and slutty groupies on top DO NOT spend pages explaining recoupable debt. After reading Jake Slichter’s So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star and...
When I listened to Bo Diddley, I didn’t know what he was saying, whether it was “My baby, she was a bird’ or ‘My baby, she was murdered.” It didn’t make any difference. It moved me. Paul Simon Bo Diddley passed away last week, and anybody who tapped a toe or shook a tail feather, should...
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie...
My wife is watching the Oscars. This is a fair deal since she put up with me watching NASCAR all afternoon. I'll say that nobody needs to see Barbara Walters in HD but I'm still happy to let her enjoy this. When you live in a small condo and there's a foot of sorbet density snow on the ground you're...
This is a very old topic, but an American woman in Naples posted a new video on this subject in CNN's iReport section. She shows how she lives in a nice house and neighborhood, but she has to drive a very short distance to dump her trash. The trash just piles up. No truck ever comes to get it. The...
Since I've spent a lot of the last few days reading Jake Slichter's mildly-amusing So You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star, I can't stop singing Semisonic songs in my head. Now I am passing the plague on to you.
Because I am 99% Booknerd and 1% music-geek-wannabe, I have designated June rock and roll month. What gives me such authority? The fact that my birthday is on the sixth day of the sixth month and this year I’ll be thirty-six. Did I make that up right now? Hell yes. It’s been a long time since...
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