52. R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi Critics like to give bands certain arcs, and those arcs tend to conform with the rise-and-fall of tragedy. The Beatles “fell apart” due to success, the Stones jumped the shark in the 70’s, briefly re-grouped for Some Girls, and then coasted along ever since. And according to overwhelming… Read More Rating My CD’s: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Recent interview with my new favorite band: Pitchfork: To “just“ be a rock band or a punk band is suddenly very novel and, to some folks, confusing. Do you feel that you‘re part of any particular scene? Mark Perro: We’re not trying to create some fodder for a Village Voice article or anything. I never… Read More The Men on Pitchfork
He done poked the hive. Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, “I can’t believe Bay says they’re aliens when they’re obviously derived from radioactive slime!” But Bay is essentially erasing almost 30 years of love for transmogrified adolescent reptile ninjas by claiming each turtle is less of a fearsome,… Read More Michael Bay Makes Ninja Turtles Aliens, Geeks Angry
Why has no one thought of this before? It’s one of those names that’s so obvious, no one thinks of it. Yet, judging by this review of their latest album Open Your Heart (which is only an “enh” album name) at Under the Radar, it’s perfect. Also judging by that review, I want some. Yeah,… Read More There’s Actually a Band Called “The Men”
She’s a Buddhist, which is to say, an apostate, which would also deny her communion. Oh. She walked into St. John Neumann Church in Gaithersburg with the intention of causing trouble. When Fr. Guarnizo tried to explain to her that he could not give her communion unless she went to confession, Johnson’s lover checked the… Read More So it Turns Out That the Lesbian Denied Communion at Her Mother’s Funeral isn’t even Catholic Anymore…
A rare political post (h/t Instapundit): In the United States, right now, women have preferential treatment – by law – in any company that gets federal funds (which heaven help us, right now, is most of them.) Women live longer than men. Cancers that affect females get more money and more attention than those that… Read More Sarah Hoyt Speaks Truth to Power
So says John Stossel at Reason: (h/t Insty) We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can’t keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules “incomprehensible.” They are. They are also “uncountable.” Congress has created so many criminal offenses… Read More You Don’t Know What the Law is…
We love to hate her because she’s a self-besotted nincompoop who will not go away. Although posing for Playboy would seem to be a desperate grab at fading relevance, she does so with her clothes on as part of an interview. So she hasn’t gone all the way down…yet. PLAYBOY: Conservatives are as hard on… Read More Why We Wingnut Bloggers Love to Hate Meghan McCain, and Why We Get Away With It…
Jon Stewart does not overhear himself: 1. What Rush Limbaugh said was offensive. 2. What Bill Maher said was offensive. 3. There are, and ought to be consequences to stand-up comedians who cross the line — as in the cases of Michael Richards and Tracy Morgan. 4. ????????? 5. Shut up, Fox News!
Pursuant to last week’s Book Blog Bleg, I have decided to cull the best of my old dead blogs into a single volume and publish them on Amazon using CreateSpace. It will be a short tome, to keep prices small. I’m also going to publish it on Kindle. The suddenly low entry costs of Amazon… Read More Upcoming Book
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