Category: Record reviews
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Summer is gone, get over it
The four major musical genres I find at yard sales and estate sales are Celtic, Christmas, classical, and country. The fifth is probably whale sounds. Though I often find unexpected gold in these situations, to most of the CDs I dig up I would apply the term “not good.” However,…
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No, summer! Don’t go!
You’re an artist. It’s noon and you’ve been awake for at least 15 minutes. You’ve gargled your first gallon of coffee. It’s time to get your game on. How do you welcome your Muse? Yoga? Affirmations? Mixed martial arts? Michelangelo opened himself to inspiration with his paint-by-numbers kit. John Steinbeck…
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Ask Run-DMSteve: Dawn of Justice
The solar eclipse invaded the mainland United States through Oregon, where cracks and fissures appeared in the earth and the simple folks panicked, setting fire to civilization….Excuse me, this is approximately what happened in Isaac Asimov’s short story “Nightfall,” in which a planet with six suns experiences darkness for the…
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Don’t hate me because synthesizers are beautiful
This week I fired my wife. And my dog. I voted three times to do things I didn’t want to do and that my neighbors begged me not to do in the first place. I took away people’s rights. Why are people always whining about their rights? I’m white, I’m…
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Top 4 things I learned after tripping over The Righteous Brothers
The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers 1990 For all of you who read my title and are now trying to drag me out of the seat I paid for: Hear me, my people! I’m not disputing the angelic status of Bobby Hatfield and Bill…
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