strictly roots.
Let’s talk about the weekend.
There were some dogs and some not-dogs. The dog show was sweet and totally bizarre, as expected . . . I’m a fan of the dogs that misbehave, and of the prissy men with well-groomed Afghan wolfhounds.
Howlin Rain ruled hard. As was pointed out by another attendee, Ethan is looking pretty [...]
Last night, checked out Citay at Belvedere’s, which both of the readers of my FFW>> blog on the CP site knew about. Good show — they’re supposedly a 9-piece on record, but there were six on tour. They sounded full and beautiful; twin lead guitar is one of their “things.” They make very pretty songs.
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This is mind-blowingly, hilariously awful. I love the original song, too.
(This is not an endorsement of any candidate, nor of sexualizing the presidency as is clearly done in this song.) (Also I wish Hillary appeared at the end to deliver the penultimate line from the original, “I’m gettin’ on my camel and I’m ridin’ [...]
I’m one of the three people left in the US who doesn’t have cable and therefore has to go out and buy a conversion box for DTV in time for the switch next year (or else buy cable like they want me to). Also I care about the FCC not being a bunch of stooges [...]
First of all, check out this NPR story I heard over the weekend (I know, not usually the way one introduces something that will be truly funny — bear with me here). It’s about Dame Shirley Bassey coming out with a new album, and features a stream of her cover of Pink’s “Get the Party [...]
How was my weekend, you ask? Splendid, thank you!
I did things like get my oil changed (it’s every nine months or 3000 miles, right? right?) and clean my apartment and turn my filing cabinet back into a filing cabinet instead of a piling cabinet. I got the same thing I always get at Taste of [...]
What did I do this past weekend?
Friday night was the Hair Police show that was not a Hair Police show really, since Hair Police failed to show. I guess they had complications with travel or whatever. Missed In the Belly of the Whale, unfortunately, but I’ll catch them at Belvie’s with Citay. Caught Slices, who [...]
I arrive at work this morning to find a press release announcing that St. Vincent College’s commencement speaker this year will be none other than Coach Mike Tomlin.
Needless to say, this is a much less controversial pick than last year.
In other St. Vincent news, which I usually do not broadcast much of, next month they’re [...]
So anyway — Baby Dee Saturday night was splendid. The crowd was a little weird — mostly stuffy people who didn’t laugh when it was appropriate. But whatever. Dee’s album is pretty great, and if she’s coming through your town in the future, check her out.
This weekend is Hair Police and Blues Control at Roboto [...]
An announcement on today’s P-G Magazine section notes that “CATHY” HAS RETURNED TO THE COMICS PAGE after a brief hiatus during which “Brevity” was sampled.
I, for one, had the toughest time figuring out what they had chopped to make space for “Brevity” (and I noted this in the email I sent to Steve Massey on [...]