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1. “Take on Me,” a-Ha 2. “Another Green World,” Brian Eno 3. “Glamorous Glue,” Morrissey 4. “Maquilladora,” Radiohead 5. “Angelica,” Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 6. “Boner Beats,” The Dead Milkmen 7. “Dub Driving,” Angelo Badalamenti 8. “Both Sides Now,” Joni Mitchell 9.  “The Postman,” The American Analog Set 10. “Toxygene – Las Vegas Mix,” [...]

okay — check out the last comment, the one from Raymon, posted today on this FRT from like… oh… i dunno…. two full months ago. i figure its some kind of spam, right? i don’t know what kind, since it doesn’t link to cheap viagra or a low-interest mortgage — it doesn’t even link to [...]

“Workin’ on Leavin’ the Livin’,” Modest Mouse “Four-Day Interval,” Tortoise “Round Here (live version),” Counting Crows “Hard to Tell,” Old Crow Medicine Show “Beachball,” R.E.M. “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” Ministry “Alienation’s for the Rich,” They Might Be Giants “No More ‘I Love You’s’,” Annie Lennox “Hey DJ,” Quad City DJ’s “Black Steel,” Tricky Bonus: “Why [...]

So, Saturday was my birthday. (I’m now this many…oh wait, you can’t see how many fingers I’m holding up. I guess it remains a mystery). But that meant that my whole weekend, from Friday on, was befuddled. I did this FRT on Friday morning, but didn’t get the chance to post it (Would I lie?!?). [...]

This Thursday, my wee poetry book group – The Bard’s Book Club – will be discussing poems from Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. Each month, as I prepare for these discussions, I find myself asking not only what we should talk about, but why? What makes this poet worth looking at, as opposed to others. With Sylvia, [...]

Last Train to Trancentral, The KLF Inside, Moby Parachutes (Funeral Song), Mates of State Don’t Think of Me, Dido Come Back to Camden, Morrissey Why Won’t You Talk About It, The Radio Dept. About Me, They Might Be Giants Complexity, The Roots Piccadilly Palare, Morrissey A Punch Up at a Wedding, Radiohead Yay!: 3, 9 [...]

If you haven’t read A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving, you should. Period. The first time I read this was almost 10 years ago at the urging of the Little Mister (long before he was the Little Mister), who had read it at the urging of his good friend and college roommate Uncle [...]

Lookout blogosphere, there’s a new kid on the block. Or, more accurately, five old kids and one new kid, all milling around suscipiciously on a different street corner. The Mad Poets Blog, an offshoot of the Mad Poets Society’s main web page, has been a while in the making. It includes a wicked-cool sidebar events [...]

There’s a reason why I still write my poems in a marble copybook, with a simple rolling ball pen, and only commit them to computer after several long-hand revisions. That reason: technology is goofy. For all it’s bonuses, technology continues to befuddle me at the most unlikely turns. I spent this afternoon making simple sidebar [...]