Having pretty much stopped following popular music about 20 years ago, I'm not at all familiar with Amanda Palmer, but a (very) little research turns up the fact that she once performed with a band called the Dresden Dolls which some friends of mine liked, and that she's married to Neil Gaiman, an author I've Continue Reading

A couple of weeks ago, a 51-year-old man went to the dentist in Austin, Texas. He got in the chair, the anesthesiologist went to work and...an hour later, the group in the dentist's office had grown considerably, and someone said "He's gone." And he was: my friend Brent Grulke had suffered cardiac arrest and was Continue Reading

Blogging about blogging? Yeah, well, sorry about that; I've been wrapped up in a huge project which may become even huger, and so I've spent the largest part of the last week thinking and working on it, and not pithy content for this blog. But, having taken my daily stroll through my favorite blogs by Continue Reading

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger knew of each other's existence because they went to the same school, but they didn't actually speak to each other until the day Keith noticed that Mick had a pile of impossible-to-find blues albums with him. (He'd been ordering them directly from Chess Records in Chicago). Obviously, this kid was Continue Reading