I don’t get that many press releases anymore, so I shouldn’t be such a crab, right? And it doesn’t matter, anyhow. Still. This one needs sharing. I happen to like the publicist who sent this out, and so I’ve removed […]
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Another futile attempt to multitask. Which, in this case, means that I’m trying both to clean my office and to listen to one of the stacks of CDs littering it everywhere. This is also a kind of self-reminder of what […]
In moments of weakness, my PayPal account temporarily in a positive cash flow position and with the pretext that I’m “researching” for my occasional radio show in hand, I have these last couple weeks made actual purchases of music online. […]
Monday would have been a bad day to be a rooster, unless you were the one we’re not eating tonight, the one who got thrown into a pen with four young hens so as to protect them from the weasel […]
Mostly, squabbles here aside, it feels like I’ve retired from the music industry. Except that I occasionally have time to produce a radio show, which I guess will start airing regularly after the next pledge drive block in March, and […]
Embedded within this community, and in the broader world wide tower of babel, is a small movement devoted to the proposition that Gram Parsons should be in the Country Music Hall of Fame. When I checked a moment ago, something […]
For good and ill, I am principally and by choice — if not conscious choice — a confessional essayist. Blame it on De Quincy or Hunter S. or Wendell Barry (to whom I come late, and not often enough). Blame […]
The habit formed when I was 19 and first living on my own. The dishes would pile up for a few days, and then I would turn to the stereo, play the loudest thing I could find — or the […]
We have known, at least since the 1969 publication of Paul Ehrlich’s once widely read book The Population Bomb, that our civilization was on a collision course with the carrying capacity of our planet. It is possible to argue that […]
Back at the turn of the 1980s I spent a couple of years working for a regional ski newspaper in Seattle. I was editor the year of the great drought, and so there was no snow; I was editor the […]
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