Saturday Spins: The Clash
I am going to, and this will be somewhat controversial, proclaim that Combat Rock is second only to London Calling in the definitive ranking of albums by the Clash.
I am going to, and this will be somewhat controversial, proclaim that Combat Rock is second only to London Calling in the definitive ranking of albums by the Clash.
In times of stress, it’s good to return to nourishing comfort food, which for me means Jim Harrison’s prose.
Sports games for people who don’t like sports games.
Put this song on…I was a puddle after hearing it. Since I am a narcissist like Jason Isbell we are gonna make this about me.
I went to the grocery store. It was everything I had dreamed of and more.
Nowhere Prophet will make you remember Magic The Gathering. But in a good way.
We all have those “someone is wrong on the internet, and I must destroy them” moments. Some more than others. Recently, myself and a few authors and friends of this website discussed the genius...
The Myth of Sisyphus. Except it’s nose-blowing.
While getting by in strange times, I read a book of short stories about how average Ukrainians got by before and after the fall of Communism.
Running the numbers and putting up brick walls in Shadow of War
For the uninitiated, the Traveling Wilburys were formed in 1988 by George Harrison (The Beatles), Jeff Lynne (ELO) Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty.
Mark Twain had a funny line: “The pleasures of fornication are overstated while the pleasures of defecation go unsung.”
Stefan Zweig perhaps wrote so well about reversals of fortune because he suffered one himself.
X-Com Chimera Squad was only announced a couple of weeks ago. And now it’s out already!
I’m not ready!
All of the things you love about football, none of the things you don’t.
This week my toddler shook my phone and out popped the father of “Cosmic American Music,” or as the folks over at No Depression call it, “Alt-Country.”
Even though Record Store Day has been delayed this year, I am hoping that will be even the slightest distraction from the anxiety of these weird times.