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Know-nothings
What do critics know? I was a rock critic for years, and I always knew my opinion was just one crabby person’s opinion – nothing more, nothing less. Yeah, sure, I felt like I knew more than a lot of other people about rock and roll, and that gave me the right to spout off […]
Playlist tidbits
Every day’s bus ride from the Westminster Park and Ride is like listening to the weirdest radio station imaginable — a lot weirder than even the heyday of “underground” radio of the late ’60s and early ’70s. And every ride, I hear gems out of the 10,064 tracks on my 40GB 4G iPod that make […]
History in the Northwest
11:00 a.m. Here I sit in my rental car, mere yards from the water. I’m waiting for the Bainbridge Island Ferry in Seattle — I missed the last one by just seconds and the next one leaves in an hour. Bainbridge Island is the place captured poetically in the book and movie, “Snow Falling on […]
Comfort food
Sometimes, you just gotta have comfort food — you know, meat loaf, mac and cheese, a nice chicken fried steak. Real mashed potatoes, not the just-add-water kind. And when it comes to comfort food, you can’t beat a great diner. So I welcomed my lunch date today at the Rocky Mountain Diner, even though it’s […]
Gag Me
I just heard one of the most gawdawful songs of the rock and roll era — or any era, for that matter — on CNN. I was working away, and the TV outside my office door started playing Joe Cocker‘s 1973 Top 40 hit, “You Are So Beautiful.” The sound stopped me cold, and I […]
