OK, let’s get this party started! (If you’re wondering about the parameters and what we’re doing, you can find them HERE) 150: Tom “T-Bone” Stankus – “Existential Blues” (1980) I love novelty songs, and this is the one novelty song in this countdown. It’s a bit of stupid genius, made famous on the Dr. Demento […]
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Hi. This is a site where I look forward to sharing some of my favorite things with you — in particular, music and other arts. It was inspired by my friend Jim’s project in which he asked several of his college friends to give him a list of their 100 favorite songs — in 1989. […]
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Don’t be afraid. That’s it, really. You don’t need to be afraid of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932 The conservative media…
I wish I could say I was surprised by what happened Thursday night in Buffalo. That’s when the Buffalo Police riot squad shoved a 75-year-old activist and he fell backward, hitting his head and bleeding onto the pavement. I even feel a degree of sympathy for the police. They were doing what they thought they…
It hit like a punch to the gut. Warren Buffett is selling The Buffalo, along with 30 other newspapers, to Lee Enterprises. I guess I’m not surprised, but it’s still stunning. The Buffalo News was one of the last outposts for high-quality regional journalism in the nation. It had taken its body blows, but it…