Sunday in the Park With Occupy Wall Street

Finding myself home from school for the weekend, I hopped the subway down to Zucotti Park on October 16, curious to see just how much of the mainstream media’s inane assessments of the Occupy Wall Street protesters would turn out …

Religion Pt. 1

When I was a kid, maybe around six, I had a children’s bible – an illustrated, abridged collection of some of the more kid-friendly stories from both Old and New Testaments (I’m assuming it didn’t include any of the rape, …

Choke City

2011 Red Sox Will Challenge 1927 Yankees for Title of Greatest Team in Major League History

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

I’m sorry. It’s just that you’d typically expect the “Greatest Team in Major League History” to make the playoffs and everything.

See you …

Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992

March 16-20, 1992 (1992)

A+

1. Grindstone 2. Coalminers 3. Wait Up 4. Criminals 5. Shaky Ground 6. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down 7. Black Eye 8. Moonshiner 9. I Wish My Baby Was Born 10. Atomic Power 11. …

First Listen: Wilco’s “The Whole Love”

Wilco’s latest, The Whole Love, is streaming for another, oh, 20 hours or so over at wilcoworld.net about 3 1/2 weeks before its scheduled release date of September 27. Score one for Tweedy and the Wilcsters – the …

Corporate marriage

Mitt Romney supports the idea of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, thus making it clear that he does not believe gay people are, um, actual people. Or even 3/5 of actual people! Which is weird because he also …

Objectivity

Ripping music critics is a well-worn international pastime. Understandably so, because so much music writing today, the vast majority of it lying on a range from merely dull and predictable to insufferably full of itself to bafflingly incompetent, is so …