Sunday, December 21, 2008

THE CINNAMON BEAR

(that's a link)

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YOU WILL GET hooked on this Wizard-of-Oz-like, wonderfully whacked-out Christmas-themed radio series from 1937. Enjoy the acid-trip-like adv...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

America's Circus Maximus

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THIS MORNING I HEARD sportswriter Sal Paolantonio on the Dennis Miller show (yeah, I know, I listen to that glib, snickering-at-his-own--jok...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

$tarbucks: Your Community Coffee Store!

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STARBUCKS HAS CHUTZPAH . Fashioning a warm-and-cozy, earth-toned, earth-friendly, feel-good glow around itself is a Starbucks specialty. It...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

New old posts!

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THESE ARE POSTS I meant to finish up and add long ago but just recently got around to doing so. Actually, I prefer nonduality : (skeptical...

Top 10 worst pop music trends of the last 10 years

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LAST TIME I POSTED about the MTV Video Music Awards. More than any other force, the music video is responsible for shrinking pop music from ...
Monday, September 08, 2008

VMAs: Very Much Annoying

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WHAT CAN YOU SAY about the MTV Video Music Awards? It is what it is, and everybody (except, perhaps, its key target audience) knows what it...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Hey, guess what

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CHICKEN BUTT! It's my longtime friend from the Internets - Heather Bradley . This chick is wacky crazy talented -- I think the name of h...

How to lie without lying

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IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING free speech and artistic license allow the wolf to dress as a sheep, and no law will stop him. It’s bad enough ...
Friday, July 04, 2008

This is not America

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SINCE IT'S INDEPENDENCE DAY, I think it behooves me to wax political, something I don't usually do here. What I've been wonderin...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Bright, happy, and maybe even deadly

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LOTS OF ADS ARE SILLY. Those aimed at young women in particular tend to be the silliest. I don't mean funny: I mean dumbed-down and mind...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Rhythm & Snooze

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I get peeved at this R & B With its musical illiteracy Just packed full of gimmicry No originality I'm goin' outta my mind ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

it's not just a job, it's an adventure

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IN THE JOB I'VE held the last six months I've had to work through rain, sleet, snow and below-zero temps. I've worked in the ed...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

A dirty boy and dirty girl

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I THOUGHT I MIGHT LITERALLY DIE laughing. Laughing hard for three minutes straight is painful. And what if you break a rib, or your sternum ...

The fame of Hall

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LIVE FROM DARYL'S HOUSE ? This is too good to be true. This is the online TV show starring one of my musical heroes doing music from his...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The award for Worldwide Worst Song and Video of the '80s

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GOES TO ... TRACY SPENCER for "Take Me Back." No, not Tracie Spencer , the "Star Search" -winning songbird who first ...
Saturday, January 05, 2008

"Actually, I prefer nonduality,"

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SAID PRASAD, ALOUD, in response to -- nothing. We were in the midst of silent meditation, and he just suddenly decided to say that. The o...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Don't make "statements." Make art.

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AS FOR NEW YORKER critic Peter Schjeldahl's characterization of Chicago as a "receptor city" ( Chicago Reader , November 29), ...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Dead beats, or the death of melodies and chords

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ON A RECENT NIGHT I pulled into a Borders parking lot and the radio was playing that classic house anthem " The Music's Got Me ,...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Awesomely bad music

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ALL THE BAD '80s ballads VH1 can muster up have got nothing on this Aussie , a member of a songwriters message board I belong to. He...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Max von Bush: New World Order

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ANOTHER INGENIOUS VIDEO mashup from Tim Jones, loaded with subversive truths. Check it out . ( DISCLAIMER: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS CERTAIN ...
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