Pardon the absence. You see, I’ve been in a bit of a funk. Watching all the crap emanate from all the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve performances, coupled with the inexplicable rise of the foul-mouthed Ke$ha (more on that later this week), has me mourning for the death of popular music. 2010 is not starting out [...]

I’m reading Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto right now. It’s one of those books which automatically makes you think, “Dang, I could write that. Why didn’t I write that?” One of the early chapters is an essay exploring why Billy Joel is so cool when he writes [...]