A couple of years ago I didn’t know a thing about Jean Shepherd. I’d seen his name associated with A Christmas Story, one of my favorite holiday movies, and had assumed he was a woman. I mean, Jean, spelled with a J, is a woman’s name, isn’t it?
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But, of course, he was a man. In [...]
Following is our recent trip to London, boiled down to the important part only: the beer. Quantities have been omitted, to protect the guilty, and because I can’t really remember the details. But it should give you a general idea of our travels, and our major accomplishments, within (and without) the UK…
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Samuel Adams Boston Ale (at [...]
I was doing Google searches a few days ago, trying to find a place where I could download a well-known Replacements bootleg, called “Shit, Shower, and Shave.” I never got there, but during my travels I stumbled upon a great little website that caused my inner-music geek to become fully engorged.
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It’s called That Truncheon Thing, and [...]
There was a balance remaining on an old Amazon gift certificate I received a while back, and it was burning a hole in my account. So last night I used it up.
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I ordered the latest CD by Jim White, a guy who’s great but difficult to describe. Imagine wedging Harry Crews, Morcheeba, Daniel Lanois, and [...]
During a previous lifetime I worked at a record store, within the state of North Carolina. One day we received a promotional copy of a new album by a band called The Woodentops, titled, for some reason, Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway. It looked interesting, so somebody slapped it on the turntable.
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And we were [...]