Adam Yauch, R.I.P. (One Year Later)
Sean MurphyThis hurts. Word is hitting the wires that Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, has succumbed to...
Props for Pops (71st Birthday Edition)
I have written more than once about my mother (here and here) but I haven’t...
Albert Hofmann, R.I.P.
Talk about better living through chemistry! Albert Hofmann, the chemist who invented/discovered LSD, has passed away...
Spring*
95 South: Eventually, the skyline turns from gray to green, with trees instead of telephone...
The Red Headed Stranger Turns 80
Willie Nelson is not America. Willie Nelson is America. I don’t have much to say...
George Jones: R.I.P.
George Jones has left us for that great country song in the sky. To say...
How Caddyshack Explains Everything (Revisited)
7/22/2009: Listening to the disingenuous whining of the G.O.P. regarding the outrageous and irresponsible debt...
The Song Remains The Same or, The Agony of Influence (Revisited)
Two thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month… Whatever. Good poets borrow; great...
Just Like a Big Daydream in the Middle of the Night: The Return of Shuggie Otis
True story: Already an industry veteran although barely legal drinking age, Shuggie Otis was asked...
Happy Birthday Chazz: Mingus at 91
Today would have been (and, still is) Charles Mingus’s 91st birthday. I’ve written about him...