Another new list I started this year was keeping track of all the live music I've seen. Thanks to my Music Notes I was able to backdate this several years too, which was fun. Anyway, this first list is all the live music I've seen...
Author: Erik Loomis
George McGovern, Food for Peace administrator, 1961 This is just a fascinating connection that I had never considered before: In 1996, Ananya Vajpeyi, a doctoral student, discovered the fabled South.
The new class of weight loss drugs also have miracle drug impacts it seems and given that both good health and the lack thereof have enormous economic structures build around.
Here is the list of movies I watched this year. And I mean movies. I don't want TV. By and large, I find the modern TV revolution tremendously frustrating. Why do I want to spend 14 hours with half-baked characters that would in fact be...
This is the grave of Levi Stubbs. Born in 1936 in Detroit, Stubbs grew up in a musical family. His older brother sang, sure, but his cousin was Jackie Wilson..
A friend sent this to me from a Denver restaurant. I have a lot of thoughts. Here are 5: Why the fuck does this exist? Who would pay $16 for.
This is the grave of Anne Rice. Born in 1941 in New Orleans, Howard Allen Frances O'Brien smartly went by Anne. Who the hell names their daughter Howard? Is this the Tammy Wynette response song to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue"? Rice actually addressed...
Jimmy Carter has died. Carter was a pretty bad president and then one of the two greatest ex-presidents, along with John Quincy Adams. He’s become something of a beloved figure.
This is the grave of Jerry McMorris. Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1940, McMorris grew up in the trucking world. His dad owned a small trucking company and McMorris.
I haven't really seen much live music in Mexico and Oaxaca is not exactly a town where Mexicans bands play a lot. But I have watched a couple of music documentaries that we can talk about a bit to frame this post, the last Music...
This is the grave of Torrie Zito. Born in 1933 in Utica, New York, Salvatore Zito grew up in an Italian-American family, in case the name wasn't clear enough on.
This is the grave of Christopher Columbus. Hoo boy...... I'm largely just going to copy from my Columbus Day labor history post from earlier this year, which lays most of.