I was seven when George Carlin’s “Class Clown” came out. I remember being at a party at the Picetti’s house and being sent to another room with the rest of the kids while the adults listened to the album in the living room. The next weekend, my older brother procured the LP at Tower in […]
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Rain Shame
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Scottish are a bit like Joe DiMaggio – they don’t get it. The great Yankee Clipper reportedly failed to comprehend the Simon and Garfunkel line “where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” and his own status as a national icon. “I’m still here,” Jolting Joe protested. “Haven’t they heard of Mr. Coffee?” The passport official […]
Good Hearting Gone Bad
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
you got a heart so big it could crush this town -Petty I think I used that tune as a lead in about five years ago, and wrote something about the heart .. how some claim that it has intuitive properties much like the brain and is capable of influencing reason, spirit and behavior. Most […]
Reelin’ In The Spears
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I think you’d better call John ’cause it don’t look like they’re here to deliver .. the mail. -more Neil I was showing someone an old comic strip of John Spears the other day, by way of explaining who he was. It was in a large album of other strips I’d done, with titles like […]
Hymn To Her
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Well they raised that horse to be a jumper .. Tom Myers once told me that he heard the “I was flyin’” line in Tom Petty’s Runnin’ Down A Dream song as “I was sublime.” I myself once thought the “how my poor heart aches” line in Sting’s Every Breath You Take was “I’m a […]
Big Muddy
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
nothin’ illegal; just a little bit funny Springsteen wrote the tune, in deference to Pete Seeger, on 1992’s Lucky Town. It’s a difficult one for me to get through now, because I have a specific memory of my old pal John C. Spears wading in my parents’ swimming pool, clad only in what my brother […]
Wire Wrap
Monday, March 10, 2008
rip ‘n’ run Both Davids – Simon and Chase – should take heart in the amount of critical attention given to the final acts of their respective creations. While The Wire may have ended a bit too neatly and The Sopranos a bit too obscurely for some, it was only because they both left the […]
Hillary Rodham Lott
Saturday, March 8, 2008
An off the cuff remark by an Obama advisor featured in this article provides what has to be one of the least startling angles on this campaign: a lot of people are rightfully wary of the Clintons in general, and Hillary in particular. Shortly after I read the quote, I received an email from Clinton’s […]
The Witches of Flatbush
Friday, February 29, 2008
Brooklyn, on his damned quarrel smiling, showed like a rebel’s whore I saw Macbeth in Brooklyn last night, not in the form of an oddly cloaked apparition on the F train, but as performed by Patrick Stewart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Stewart has damn fine posture for a man pushing seventy and needs […]
Couch Sleep
Thursday, February 28, 2008
I’ve done a lot of sleeping on couches in my time. It’s affected some of the relationships I’ve been in, as some people take it as a personal affront. But the truth is I’m equally likely to sleep on the couch, or get up from the bed to go sleep on the couch, when I’m […]