Run-DMSteve

  • Your fast & furious Run-DMSteve guide to year 6

    Time for some three-months-overdue housekeeping. Return with me now to the long-ago Year of Our Lord 2016, and thanks as always for sending me money*: Goodbyes Maurice White David Bowie Prince Bands The Alarm Astounding songs on atrocious albums: The Zombies, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, The American Breed Classical…

  • No particular place to go

    My mother and I have battled over my clothes, my career choices, my hair, why I don’t put on a hat when it rains, whom I married and whom I didn’t, but I love my mother and I think of her as the light that warms the room on a bright…

  • I Saw Mommy Kissing Gertrude Stein

    (Dear Readers: You’re in trouble now. I figured out how to republish my old posts! This unsparing survey of holiday music originally appeared on 22 December 2011. To quote the sign that hangs in the window of the Blue Moon Tavern in Seattle, “Sorry, we’re open.”)  One night this week I powered up the…

  • The human comedy

    The result of the recent presidential election resembles nothing in the history of the United States. It looks more like the final convulsions of the ruling white elites in Rhodesia and South Africa. This resemblance doesn’t help me sleep at night. Lucky has his back to the wall. Barack Obama,…

  • I’m gonna jump in a crater. (See you later.)

    I’m taking another break from blogging. I’ll be back in November, and with a story, too, if this goes well. Today I want to salute my most loyal readers – those generous people who take the time to write comments no matter what stupid things I’ve said. Some of them…