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I read obits once in awhile. Is it some magical-thinking way of proving I'm not dead yet? It's a way to find out something about p...

I recently read about the late, great, French pop songster, and bad boy, Serge Gainsborough, and well, eventhough, I've never really hea...

One year, one Oscar, one Nobel Prize. Not bad. Add to that the guy wins the popular vote in 2000... Of course, as we all know the Supremes...

Last night White Wolf Sonic Princess (WWSP) played out at Uncommon Ground. It was such a blast. I mean, we were nervous as hell. For some...

Can rock & roll save your soul? Not sure about that. There is much debauch and wreckage associated with the r&r lifestyle. Early ...

The Lovely Carla went for an acupunture session this morning. At lunch she hits me this sage advice: "beware the drunken monkey in yo...

Tom Stoppard's play "Rock & Roll" is coming to New York. He writes about it in the latest Vanity Fair. It seems he was o...

It's been said over and over...and well, not sure if our country can really deal with the depths of the degradation and destruction this...

I can't really go into the specifics...I must protect the innocent, the not so innocent and the completely guilty. Let's just say, ...

I don't really think it's our mission to "lead the world," I mean, what if we could live a good life, take care of our chi...

We took our R&R roadshow 139 miles north to Madison (a city on a hill between two lakes Menota and Mendota), Wisconsin over the weekend....

Serj Tankian, the leader singer of System of Down, is on tour promoting his new solo album. Serj has a lot going for him. A political con...

I watched the TV show "Mad Men" last night. I thought it was quite good. It looks like it's taking off from movies such as ...

Feeling pretty good this morning. White Wolf and Sonic Princess rocked out at the Elbo Room in Chicago last night. What a nice room, great...

A friend of mine, a fellow-traveller, a great spirit, sent me a very funny file. It's called the "worst album covers of all time....

It's kind of fascinating to watch the "daily hate," (who is next?) that is being directed at the President of Iran. I mean, t...

This is from Juan Cole: "The argument about whether Cheney/Bush went into Iraq over petroleum is not interesting. Of course they did, o...

Last week one of our Four Star (how many stars are in the sky?) Generals marched down to the Senate to tell our brilliantly noble representa...

Imagine a counter-factual world. A world where let's say there was a foreign force in Louisiana (I'm just improvising here). This ...

We are so much like the weather. Carbon-based weather vanes. One day to the next; one day, unlike any other. Ever again. There are isoba...