In case there was any doubt: Filing on this today for NPR, stay tuned for air date. PS: please oh please notify us all about Prince boots from Coachella. Trade you for last year's Super Bowl sound-check ("Johnny B. Goode"). … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2008
Tabloid Negative
Here's reflexive enigma worthy of Joe Pesci: does Ellroy's masterful novel (or Dillelo's Libra) read like the nightmare forecast of David Kaiser's voluminously detailed history or the other way around? Is history more like fiction or does fiction tend to anticipate and generate history? Was there … [Read more...]
Old White Men, Unite!
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" played as warmonger Bush greeted His Papal Self at the White House. Wonder if either of them could name the song's lyricist, Julia Ward Howe, who went on to write the Mother's Day Proclamation, a call for peace. … [Read more...]
Card Shark
OH! Canada!
So, Jim and Brian and I wander around Vancouver this afternoon ... then we wander over to the old hockey arena and pick up our our all-access passes to the Foo Fighters show. And we're hanging out back in the bowels of this arena until Brian's friend Nate, who plays bass in the Foos, wanders in … [Read more...]