Coincidence? You Be The Judge

For those of you as yet unaware of the situation, I have recently joined the ranks of the unemployed. Along with the job, of course, goes the house we were gearing up to close on. Hard to pay a mortgage without an income. I – and many others – have noted that it’s a very [...]

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The Intro Riff: A Lost Art?

There are a few songs which most of us can identify within the first few seconds, and will be able to do so to the grave. Love it or loathe it, the intro riff to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one of these. So is the opening to Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”. REM made [...]

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Ding dong?

So the big news of the day is Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska. Supposedly, Palin has grown sufficiently sick of being savaged by the media as to warrant resignation. MSNBC is running a report that says she wants to be out of politics entirely, to take the time to raise her family. Of [...]

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Happy Fourth!

Happy Fourth of July to all my fellow Americans! It still feels very weird to type ‘my fellow Americans’. Sort of like a new pair of shoes, which are very comfortable and look great, but due to their newness still seem a little awkward and tend to squeak if you turn around too fast. Independence [...]

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Time for a goodbye

Yesterday I said goodbye for the last time to a dear friend – one who was in my life for ten years, looked cooler than I ever could and was curvy in all the right places. She was very much the centerpiece of my guitar collection, and never failed to catch the eye and spark [...]

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Sixty is the loneliest number

Or at least, it may feel that way to one Harry Mason Reid, currently Senate Majority Leader. With the election – at last – of Al Franken, the Democrats have the “filibuster-proof supermajority” of which much has been said. However, I think such things as the recent House vote on Waxman-Markey (the ‘climate change bill’) [...]

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