Run-DMSteve

  • Don’t You (Forget About Parentheses)

    “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” Simple Minds 1985 Today I want to have a word with you about guilty pleasures, which, for the purpose of this disquisition, we shall define as enjoying things that you might be too embarrassed to enjoy if anyone found out you were enjoying them. I’m…

  • Golden Oldies vs. golden retrievers

    Let’s give a big Run-DMSteve welcome to today’s contestants: Golden Oldies: Radio programming. Golden retrievers: Dogs. Are you ready to rumble? Golden Oldies In 1966 my parents gave me my own radio, with a primitive earbud. They were sick of listening to my music on the family radio, which sat…

  • Thank you for the birds

    Captain Frederick Kent Dezendorf, 1914-2011 My father-in-law passed away quietly in his sleep this week, in his house on the beach in Florida. When the morning sun rose, he didn’t. Capt. Dezendorf had stood his last watch. He was 96. I hardly know where to begin with this guy. He…

  • Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet

    Godsmack, “Love-Hate-Sex-Pain” (2010) Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” (1991) The Godfathers, “Birth, School, Work, Death” (1988) Today I’d like to bring to your attention a rather disturbing trend in the naming of songs and that is the assemblage of four consecutive nouns as the song’s name. The…

  • It’s the first Annual Run-DMSteve Music and Sex Survey!

    [Note: You’ll find the extended party remix of this post at The Nervous Breakdown. -Yours truly, RDMS] There have been many crucial years in the forward lurch of humanity but I’d like to have a few words with you today about one of the biggest: 1971. For those of you…