While a lot of interesting stuff can come out of more left-field bands dabbling in pop, we also fetishize it, crowding out true experimentation. At least this reviewer did. Then a band comes along like Strawberry Hands that makes you think again about why you listen to music in the ...
One of my longtime site visitors, James Hardie, takes issue with some second-hand information shared in one of my annotations to "King's Cross," specifically the one dealing with the bar London Apprentice. I've expanded an existing qualifying footnote to this annotation to note James's reserv...
My first camping trip involved an initiation of sorts: a tent by myself that I was “advised” to pitch in a puddle of freezing water. This setup had the tacit blessing of the Scoutmaster, who hated long hair on boys even more than he did having to spend the weekend camping in cold ...
Being from multiethnic meting pot of Philadelphia this doesn’t sound quite right, though on the Parkway label 1962 it did but the “handsome and talented lads” were all, just about ethnic kids from the Philly, all quiffs and blue eyes soul, looking to music as a way out. Their names ...
I did have a kidney stone removed about six months ago. The stone was as big as a jelly bean. I am not an unhealthy eater. I do not drink alcohol excessively. I really wish that someone could help me. About a month ago, I suffered with my eyes feeling so erratic in my head. It...
So what did Nixon do? He just canceled the whole thing。 Yep。 Basically unilaterally Nixon said “we’re not going to convert dollars for gold anymore” effectively making the dollar a free floating fiat currency。 The Nixon Shock took the dollar from a very reliable IOU exchanged to gold ...
All of the children were from farm families and had similar chores and work as did John. During recess and lunch times they fished in the nearby creek or played baseball together. All belonged to the County 4-H Club and often helped each other out on their projects. During hunting season...
“The acquisition of Bungie acted as an important trigger for the success of the early Xbox. Depending upon how soon Bethesda can prime the Microsoft pipeline, I suspect Microsoft is looking at their playbook and looking to repeat one of its “best moves.” I...
I did get my Home Depot and Lowe's special financing all paid down so I can say the addition to the house is now 100% paid off. Hell yeah to that! Now the balances on the cards are much more manageable. I'm hoping to be on top of it so I don't have to spend so much of ...
Did not you stop and think what that kind of thing does to your KLOC metric??? - Jim In Texas Same with my boss, he sends me two sql sentences per day for about 2 months to fix what a broken application is doing to the DB, when i asked him: "Why don't we try to fix the ...