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Cephalic Carnage
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Red Elvises
1956what are the TWO PRINCIPLES of urgent note for White America? Elvis. The terrible Commies. Slam them 2-gether…
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Jolene Flebb of Woodway writes: “Your recent walk down Band Name Lane was a wonderful, terrific, and educating…
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To celebrate the sesquicentennial of the promotion to captain of AMERICA’S GREATEST TERRORIST, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), Bruce…
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Cat Power
Cool retro!!! First there was “Let’s Spend the Night Together”: baba daba, bop bop a daba . .…
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Starting this week, everything will begin with N. Dirt will begin with N. Radishes will begin with N.…
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Four second cousins from culture hotbed West Islip, N.Y.—birthplace of Waylon Jennings, Isaac Hayes, and the Fabulous Moolah—World…
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Nina Paranolt of Bellevue writes: “Dear Meltzer—Please help! This is important. “Back in April, high on acid, I…
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Lagwagon
Name Withheld of Renton writes: “Recently, quite by accident, I came upon samples of your writing at the…
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Moby Dick by Henry Rollins. Call me Ishmael. Manhattan before Woody, Rudy, and 9/11. Rock, rock, Rockaway Beach.…
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I’ve got four things already wrong with me: a backache, an infected ingrown toenail, a cold sore (no,…
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The only seminal music theorist to perish in the World Trade Center tragedy, Steamort Sutz, was recently awarded…
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Walter Battfatt of Bremerton writes: “It’s always fun to learn that a famous and successful band, known the…
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The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds are touring with two original members, you say? Commerce and vanity ‘re funny! If the Stones…
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Fusionoid Peckerheads
And Then the Crowd Showed Up by Tobin Sprout. What a beautiful, brilliant, flimsy little song. The perfect…
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Everclear
It carry always could you guess I well. Steer couldn’t you then and hood the on out sit…
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Ellen Says No
On Friday, March 14, the Oslo finch, the three-toed Canadian titmouse, the rainbow potato fish (from Bora Bora),…
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When my Uncle Laszlo’s will was finally read last week, I became the proud recipient of his collection…
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Names are kind of a big, big deal, y’know?—especially for kids. My idiot folks named me Dickie, for…
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Richard Grossman: “It all falls together. And that’s I think when it becomes dangerous—when you start leaving your…