Run-DMSteve

  • We can dig it: Round 1

    In Boise, Idaho in the early ohs I was at a party where I mentioned the Samuel L. Jackson remake of Shaft and how consistently awful it was. A woman in our group, a doctor, was puzzled. “Shaft?” The rest of us began to chant the song. This was not…

  • White like me

    In 2014 I heroically listened to every album Prince ever made. Well, I heroically came close. I listened to the first 14. I will eventually listen to the remaining 987. This was an exciting, enlightening quest for which I received 100% zero thanks. I didn’t get a link from Wikipedia.…

  • Still sacred after all these years

    We’ve just returned from the bar mitzvah of our nephew, Jared, in Raleigh, North Carolina. This wasn’t just a rite of passage, this was an EVENT. The two rabbis who normally run the Shabbat (Sabbath) services must’ve understood the significance of the day because they called in a reliever to…

  • Honky hoedown

    In 1955, the white man was in big trouble. Sure, we ruled the waves. And the land. And anyone who wasn’t white. And women in general. But what good was that when our music was appalling? As evidence, I present to you the Top 10 songs for the year. The…

  • Kaaaaahhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Goodbye, Mr. Spock. You were not my Random Pick of the Day, you were my Pick of a Lifetime.