Garry Mimble to you!The last thing I’ll ask you to read this year, I promise: my thoughts on the Beatles’ Christmas records — both the more familiar and the...
Take a biteI’m thrilled that an excerpt from Magic Circles has found its way into another magnificent anthology of music writing. In Sound Bites:...
Cultural defoliationMy review of the controversial Jann Wenner biography, concerning “the baby-boomer visionary whose singular will to power, rakish...
Stars fell on Alabama last nightBlack voters kicked racist red-state ass. To repurpose a phrase from Ronald Reagan – who meant something quite different by it – it’s...
Human bodies“Unless [the] would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed. This is no place for love.” At...
