Just earlier I was mowing the lawn and got to thinking how we’re really lacking (spared?) a true, unifying “hit single,” in Summer 2020. Now, the cheesy, throwaway hit of the summer is something time-honored, in America, a tradition seemingly as hard to phase as sunburns and sand in uncomfortable areas of the body. I […]
One time in what must have been like late fall 2003, I’d gotten some Taco Bell from the drive thru and for some reason didn’t want to eat in the parking lot, so I rolled to some side street like a mile away, sat there and started to eat. As it happened, I’d pulled up […]
Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle and many have perhaps glimpsed that Onion headline of 20 years ago something like “Five Years of Man’s Life Lost in Mysterious Kansas Rectangle”. And about three years ago or so I was attempting to listen to the first disc of Phish’s new boxed set St. […]
R.I.P. Malik. .. 25 “Somebody’s Gotta Do it” feat. Devin the Dude, Jean Grae & Mack Dub (The Tipping Point) Typically berated by critics for some odd reason, The Tipping Point (2004) was an album The Roots turned in a mere 17 months after the 70-minute Phrenology and also which capitalized well on the opportunity […]