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  • It’s raining men

    There were three men in the beginning of the 1970s who had the firepower to compete with Marvin Gaye: Al Green, Donny Hathaway, and Bill Withers. (At the end of the decade there was also Teddy Pendergrass, but I’m still trying to finish the beginning of the decade.) These gentlemen…

  • Ain’t nothing like the real thing

    I regret that I mostly missed Marvin Gaye while Marvin Gaye was happening. When I was a teenager I was into What’s Going On and Let’s Get It On, but being a teenager, much of the meaning of these songs flew right past me. I was probably distracted by Deep…

  • The road leads back to you

    I edited a couple of trade magazines in the 1990s. When you edit any kind of specialty magazine, you find that boredom seeps in like water in an old rowboat. There are only so many ways you can present the same subject, to keep it readable, informative, and interesting to…

  • No wonder I can’t keep my mind on nothing else!

    Today we say farewell to Percy Sledge, who sang “When a Man Loves a Woman” and went to the top of every chart in 1966. 1966 was the year my parents had finally had enough of me and my music and for my birthday bought me a transistor radio with an…

  • We can dig it: Round 2

    VIDA is a literary organization that every year counts how many men and how many women are published or reviewed in the big magazines and tries to point out how unfair it is that the editors of these zines, who are mostly men, publish mostly men, even though this nation…