While I want to focus this post on my favorite albums of 2022, I have to start by noting the passing yesterday of the great Ian Tyson. While I am not much of a fan of the early 60s folk scene, Ian &am
Time for my year-end list of what I’ve read. Here are the past lists: 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016. Let me use the same language explaining this as last year: I read these books for my own purpo
Because my list of albums to listen to still contains a lot from 2015 and 2016, my listening of 2017 albums wasn’t quite what I would have liked it to be. This will continue to be a problem in 2
Normally, I would save this for one of my occasional Saturday night music posts, but this is worth a stand alone conversation. Usually, when someone tries to rank music, it ends up a disaster, either
I’m not going to make any claims to a “Best of” list for 2014 because there are too many albums out there and my budget is too small to buy very many of them. But here are some 2014
Sadly, my best showing in four years of Dead Pool competition was not enough to assure victory. Though matched with a friend from CSU-Long Beach for the most stiffs overall, I lost the tiebreaker, whi
LGM is proud to announce the 2009 nominees for First Annual Mikey Kaus Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence in Contrarianism: Jonah Weiner: Creed may be the greatest American r
Tracy Lightcap has a good comment in the thread below: I’m not so sure that there are good and bad presidents, just good and bad opportunities. I’m a big fan of Skowronek’s scheme of