NONALIGNMENT PACT

I finally yanked the Nakamichi 200 CD player out of the home stereo line up. It just never ever gets used. Next to go is the dual cassette player. They are destined for the basement –although we are mumbling about possibly having a garage sale.

I did take the time to rip some of the cd’s. This [...]

As a kid in Houston, like many of you I’m sure, I spent hours recording music off the radio. I would go up and down the dial, mostly between one of those Q stations that played the same Top 40 hits over and over and 101.1 KLOL. Sometimes I would switch over to AM because there [...]

This is what bath time at my house is like these days. Although I do refrain (with difficulty) from singing about poop. Also, I’ve exchanged the acoustic guitar for a four string Irish tenor banjar which is tuned like a mandolin or a violin — so it’s a helpful configuration for its multitudednessocity.

My studio mate downloaded [...]

Been on the road the past two weeks. News Flash: it is hot and muggy all over. Seen a lot of hillbillies in Pennsylvania. That State has the most from what I’ve seen. Scary kind, ask you what you’re doing on the back roads and they’re covered in mud. No, what are you doing on the [...]

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Even though I’m much too an Elitist to admire anything about Bon Jovi other than his teeth, I thought I’d get something positive from attending his show at Soldier Field.

Soldier Field –in all its ugly concrete shielding– sits on the Chicago water front; entering its bowels did nothing to improve our relationship. I ended up [...]

My wife’s family is in town. Damn near all of them. A couple of days ago I got a package in the mail from them. I thought that was funny on account that I knew them’s to be on the road. Opened it up, found a couple of cd’s full of Bon Jovi. The plot thinnened [...]

My mother, previously referred to as Mom and now Oma, has a huge repository of children’s songs and poems stored in her noggin. A vastly greater collection than my own though I recognize almost all of them from my youth. My daughter Clara retains a song or poem delivered to her by Oma on a much [...]

Fox and Badger were friends.

One day Badger was taking a shower and he was in a good mood. He started singing.

I got to toot a toot out maw poot poot
poot poot tooty aw maw oot oot

Fox was in the living room where he could hear Badger singing. He started to laugh.

Later Fox told Badger that [...]

Yesterday I was up on my garage roof, getting my ass blistery, when the idea came to me to review the three most recent albums on emusic.com which I figured would be kind of random but give me the chance to present something to you that is completely fresh; however the first two albums were generic [...]

They were never a particularly good band. But they did have their moments and knew from the get go they weren’t going for the band-in-a-van sort of sacrifices some called living the dream. I think they had more real fun this way anyway –being that they really didn’t get along all that well and had many [...]