Category: Fun

• Power Pop Wednesday: Yes, Please Do Go All the Way

  In 1974, when this song came out, I was 6 years old, and yet I find that memories of it playing on AM radio still bubble up from way back…

• Funky Friday: The Power of the Writing Remix

  Witness Big Audio Dynamite II, culled from the wreckage of The Clash and infused with funk, hip hop and the earliest 1990s incarnations of electronic dance music. What you might…

• Funky Friday: God Bless America … And James Brown

    Because the Funk would not exist without JB, and without JB America wouldn’t be the same.

• Power Pop Wednesday: Back From the Capital of Obsfucation and Misdirection, Enjoy Some Smoke and Mirrors

  OK Go – The Writing’s On the Wall from 1stAveMachine on Vimeo. The family and I visited Washington, D.C., earlier this week to do the required introduction of the young…

• Welcome to Another Full Work Week. Watch Out for the Sand Worms.

• Funky Friday: Writing Routine and the Power of the Atomic Dog

  I and my family recently joined the ranks of the dog rescuers, adopting a smart and handsome pointer mix puppy we have named Percy, for no other reason than his…

• Funky Friday: Lyle Lovett Proves Genre Only Means Something If You Let It

  Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you “Penguins,” one of out-and-out funkiest songs ever laid down by someone generally classified as a country artist. But if you took a country…

• May the 4th Be With You! Here’s some Star Wars-Themed Disco to Help You Celebrate!

  As I constantly remind my children (and pretty much anyone under 30 who will listen) I was fortunate to appreciate the arrival of Star Wars in its perfect, undistilled and…

• Funky Friday: Black Sabbath and the Beastie Boys Had a Baby, and His Name Is Jack White

  I really can’t say anymore about this other than thanks to John Dickinson High School classmate Elizabeth Knox (go Rams!) for sharing this on Facebook this morning. And to the…

• It’s Monday! Shout Geronimo and Leap Into the Void

  One benefit to having an “office” career that largely consisted of doing cool and unexpected things or meeting interesting people at any given moment – then writing about them –…