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John Denver Was an Alien and He Killed Himself and All I Got Out Of it Was This Boring Childhood
John Denver didn’t die, kid. He just went home.
Robert Plant and the Commando Lunge
Interesting factoids about Led Zeppelin. Smell at your own risk.
A Hell of a Band
This post is about a song by The Righteous Brothers. I don’t know if they really were righteous, but I do know they weren’t brothers.
He Is He Said
Writing anything autobiographical is kind of like the second verse in that Neil Diamond song “I Am I Said”: Did you ever read about a frog Who dreamed of bein’ a king And then became one? Well except for the names And a few other changes Like leaving out irrelevant stuff and compressing the timeline a bit And not boring your readers with stuff that’s only interesting to you And trying to include a few minor details for color without lookingRead More
We and Mrs. Jones
And now, children, hear and remember the tale of me, Billy Paul, Mrs. Jones, my friend Rob, and my dog Meatball: Long, long ago, in a little state named Kansas, which no one wants to admit coming from except the classic rock band Kansas and possibly Bob Dole, two young men and a dog were tooling around town in the legendary muscle car Charles the Deep Breather, which probably sounds silly because you weren’t there,Read More
To Gilligan or Not to Gilligan
You know what’s wrong with kids these days? I’ll tell ya what’s wrong with kids these days! When I was a kid, everyone I knew was familiar with the aria “Votre toast je peux vous le rendre” from the opera Carmen, aka “The Toreador Song” (skip ahead to 1:12): No, we weren’t opera buffs. Bear with me a sec. Carmen is an unusual opera, given that its libretto was originally in French. Here are the original lyricsRead More
The Blown Away Guy
So this just happened: I’ve got a bit of a stuffy nose today, which is good, because The S.O. has been suffering with adult croup all week and that means I probably haven’t caught it. So I said, “Hey; where’s the Mucinex?” Meaning, of course, the brand name of the popular decongestant. Except that’s not what I said—I actually said, “Hey, where’s the Memorex?” She said, quite reasonably, “What?” I went to the replay, asRead More