Looking Glass’ “Subway Serenade” deserves respect — a sleeper perfect album

The Fender Rhodes is briefly tickled when that familiar voice kicks in — the velvet voice of Elliot Lurie. This is soft-rock at its core. “Soft-Core” as some aficionados would call it. But still — isn’t Looking Glass’ “Subway Serenade” in every way not a perfect album? I define “perfect album” by a very demanding

My Lunch with Hegenburgers

I just ate at “Hegenburgers,” the kind of place where working men and women go for decent burgers without hipster frills or expensive decor. The dress code seemed to be wet, reflective gear. Perfect for keeping you dry on a rainy airport day. There are no double sided flat screen TVs playing every single game

America is one big Mutt and Jeff (or Jeff and Mutt) Scheme

My father was a police officer for 25 years. The department he worked for really liked to recruit college grads especially those who majored in Psychology. My dad didn’t major in psychology, but he knew it, so they hired him. Anyway, cops have a routine called “Mutt and Jeff” — you may know it as

Donald Exposed as Cocaine Addict

Now I’ve seen quite a few people on drugs. I know your basic pothead, your coke-o-phile, your crankster, your acidhead, etc. Your pothead will delay everything until the last possible moment. Your cokester will think he’s god and the last shit he took was on par with Gatsby. Your acidhead feels the walls talk to

A Brief History of Why There is a Migrant Caravan in the First Place

Back in the 1946, we really wanted to win the Cold War. Socialist candidates were winning in elections in Latin America, one of them being Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala. So we created the School of the Americas in Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for… It was specifically set up to train anti-communist militaries and paramilitaries to stop the communists

If You See Your Hero Walking Down the Road, Kill Them

Kill your heroes. Has there ever been a more apropos call to action than this? Kill. Your. Heroes. Heroes don’t exist. They are characters we have created, in our heads, to fulfill father and mother fantasies we think we need. They have existed since we could put chisel to stone tablet. And they have always

Foxygen’s “Hang”

  Foxygen’s Hang is not the album America deserves, but it’s the album it needs. In these dark days of Trumpie fascism, where simply being the wrong color or religion can get your life destroyed, you can break out your baklavas and start singing for revolution, you can ignore it and sing about puppy dogs

An Open Letter to Democrats

Dear Democrats,   Please realize that after November, all of the inbreds and deplorables that Trump has raised up will not simply go quietly into the night.   The fantasy you have that they will respect the system is just that — a fantasy.   They are already armed to the teeth, they’re mad and

Silence Like a Cancer Grows

Nobody out there, not Bernie, not Stein, not HRC, not Warren, nobody…has addressed the big question, the elephant in the room: What are we going to do about our toxic racism problem? We have cops executing black people and then salting the scene We have white racists taking their side, despite the videos, the evidence

Old Conservatives, bubbles and the “reality based community”

You know, dammit, sometimes I actually miss the “old conservatives.” Not old in age, but more like the conservatives of yesteryear, before the GOP became the home of the “AltRight” and neo-nazis. The conservatives who didn’t care much for church, and would tell you flat out “I’m voting this way because I’m stingy, so fuck