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Don’t worry Coldplay, I still love you
What’s with the Coldplay hate? Google “Coldplay criticism” and you’ll find oodles of articles and blog posts slagging the successful English pop quartet for any number of ills including but not...
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We need to go darker
Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” has been on my playlist all week long, an incongruity even sandwiched inside an eclectic playlist that includes Hendrix, Dylan, the Byrds, Tom Petty, Richard Ashcroft, Thomas...
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Gather ye rosebuds – How I *almost* wrote for Star Trek
A great deal of blogging advice says you shouldn’t talk about yourself. I think I’ve been pretty good about staying true to that axiom, presenting my take on world events rather than extolling the...
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The first (and most important) connection
I tend to go through phases in what I choose to write about here. There have been politics phases, James Bond phases, Aaron Sorkin phases, family phases, phases devoted to the craft of writing as I...
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Son of a preacher man
I’m fighting through a fog today; one of those insidious, creeping mists that slithers through your ears into your brain and blurs the connections between the synapses with shrouded fingers. Maybe...
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The Advice Guy Is In!
Anyone who blogs is familiar with search engine spam: the nigh-incomprehensible, often hilarious terms that somewhere, someone is typing into Google and finding themselves directed to your site with....
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With a Song in My Heart: A is for…
“All You Need is Love,” The Beatles, 1967. So we begin this 30-day, 26-song collection with what might seem a fairly obvious choice; indeed, an immensely popular, zeitgeist-entrenched piece of music...
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With a Song in My Heart: I is for…
“Imagine” – John Lennon, 1971. I doubt there is a soul reading this entry who’s followed my work and finds this choice surprising. You could even argue that it’s the safe choice, the obvious choice....
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With a Song in My Heart: V is for…
“Valotte” – Julian Lennon, 1984. Without exception, the first reaction anyone has when hearing Julian Lennon sing is “wow, he really sounds like his dad.” Released a mere four years after John Lennon...
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With a Song in My Heart: Y is for…
“Your Song” – Elton John, 1970. Kids these days (ugh) probably don’t know what a B-side is. Well, young’uns, back in the dark ages of analogue music, songs were released on these archaic, dinner...
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