Sometimes I read my posts here and I think I come across as having my head up in the clouds or somewhere else. If you know me, you know that’s not me, at least not completely. But what am I to do? I’m blogging with a purpose (“Purpose Driven Blogging”). I agonize over pop culture …
I was angry when I downloaded Kevin Mattson’s Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind to my Kindle. That’s why I bought the book; I was mad, sick of the neverending onslaught of hateful email forwards from loved ones, the nasty status updates by Facebook friends, the bumper stickers, the t-shirts, the cable …
…or, Why Do We Take This So Personally?… Normally, I’ll be writing about music (although I’ll write about other stuff, like books, TV, whatever, etc.) and I’ll be writing about it with regard to some album, artist, song, or concert in particular. But today I want to take a more general look at why we …
Pavement broke up 11 years ago. I’d never seen them live, and, in fact, I was pretty late to the party, having only discovered them in ’98, six years and four albums into their career. It was 1998 when I bought Slanted and Enchanted, but it may as well have been ’92, and I may …