Run-DMSteve

  • Best Debut Albums of the 20th Century By Newcomers Who Aren’t Somebody Stupid Like Foreigner

    I finally watched The Doors, which I meant to see in 1991. (I’ve been busy.) Two hours of Jim Morrison self-destructing is not what I’d call a date movie. I did enjoy the Thanksgiving scene at the home of Morrison and his saintly but scatterbrained girlfriend, which ended with a…

  • A very special Run-DMSteve Thanksgiving

    Today I give thanks for one of the many blessings in my life: My loyal readers! 40Rawk is an expert in the music of the 1980s (“I love Psychedelic Furs – as long as no animals are hurt in the process”). 40Rawk and I once had an email conversation in…

  • Index to Year 1 of Run-DMSteve

    There are more than 100 million blogs in the world, but there’s no one home at most of them. According to the numbers I’ve seen, most blogs are abandoned in the first month. If there is such as thing as the “average blog,” it has the life expectancy of a…

  • Ladies of the Eighties

    I finished ’70s Week with a list of my favorite songs of the decade. I gave up on concluding ’80s Week the same way when my list of favorite songs surpassed 200. I’m going to choose one at random and call that my favorite song of the 1980s. OK, reaching…

  • Don’t put those birds on it

    “Pictures of You” The Cure 1989 “Space Age Love Song” A Flock of Seagulls 1982 I coach a chess club at a local school, grades 3-8. My toughest challenges are not explaining how to castle or how the knights move. It’s not the 4th-grade belching contests or the two 5th-grade…