Stepping up the game on his online comic strip of the same name, my brother Jack has begun a series of online shorts featuring the craven midget-mutant Rad Raz. They’re seriously turning out really good, and I’m not just saying that because he used my song for the theme music (though I gotta say, that […]

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When I was a kid, I used to think the most depressing thing in the world was a cheap, neglected toy. Toys whose shoddy plastic and crummy paint-work were clearly never going to be enjoyed by any kids whose parents had at the least even the most modest amount of disposable income. These are the […]

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It has recently come to my attention that “the kids these days” are listening to some utterly dire music. Stuff that makes you shocked its fans are able to form a sentence, let alone shoplift Arafat scarves from Urban Outfitters. When I started classing up my CD collection and exploring music as a high schooler, […]

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On July 31, 2004, I was living in sleepy Columbia, MO, anticipating my senior year in college and, weighing larger on my mind, prepping for my band to break up. We played our final show that night in my basement after a Sonic Youth show let out at the Blue Note. Yes, the fragrant mixture […]

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Hello loyal readers, and an extra special “вітаю” to my readers in the moderately populated Belarusian city of Gomel. I appreciate your stranger-than-normal enthusiasm for the site, but please, stop sending the gooseberry kisiel; as I’ve written you repeatedly, this stuff has the consistency of vomit and invites my digestive tract to treat it as […]

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MASHUP: Yes, “Yours Is No Disgrace” (1971) + Outkast, “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” (2000)
Music composed and video created this evening.

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“Animals are my friends … and I don’t eat my friends”
-George W. Bush (or maybe George Bernard Shaw)
“Some scientists believe that dogs can see things quicker than us and that pigeons are in a different time zone so if this is possible i suppose anything is.”
-Some person on Yahoo Answers
Do the animals know something we […]

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Halloween Is Grinch Night, (1977), dir. Gerard Baldwin
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When I think of all the music released in just the last year that I haven’t had the chance to check out, I feel overwhelmed. When I think about the music recorded during the rock era that I have yet to pore over, I want to cry—I’ll never get through it all! And then I […]

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