VOGUING TO DANZIG

In the transfer from draft to final version, this review lost some crucial info somehow, so I present the original below: Wooden Wand James...

Here’s a link to the final Baltimore City Paper version , while my original draft appears below: “I feel like the name of the band, right fr...

THINGS I LEARNED WATCHING “TRANSFORMERS” --“Bros before hoes!” I don’t agree with that sentiment, and I’m pretty sure I’ll never actually u...

I won’t be burning and mailing this compilation for at least four or five more months, but I’ve been playing with the structure and tracklis...

Work here is at a trickle right now, and the inspiration to plow through the writing I’m supposed to be doing is proving elusive, so I’m goi...

Was tooling around on http://www.wikipedia.com/ and came across the above, which is the cover for "Tarantula" -- the first single...

1. David Broder’s op-ed columns have always been worth at least one read. But somebody, please talk this dude outta agreeing to anymore read...

Khate Gausman is an electronics/noise/circuit-bending artist based in Virginia. A few weeks ago, we did an email interview for a magazine p...

1. Congratulations to Amal, for finishing up that Drexel U. Ph.D in Math yesterday (while seriously pregnant)! She called me up after her th...

Nodin, to Gravity: “Soon enough I shall elude thine acursed grasp and defy thine domineering tyranny to stand – to stand proud and tall! – ...

There are so many other songs I could write about at this point in this intermittent series of blurbs that are equally great, and many of th...

-No Topher Grace cameo! -No sulky Julia Roberts! No catty Catherine Zeta-Jones! No turkey ala-king! -What does it mean that Grace’s absence ...

Nothing of note to say, really, except that my cousin Kandace - who lives in Boston, I think, who knows, she doesn't keep in touch - has...

My Darling Paris, Excelsior! Bon jour! It is with great satisfaction that I, at long last, ship this parcel to you. Find enclosed a few CDs,...

Animal Collective Blitzen Trapper “Sci-Fi Kid” Brother Reade "Let's Go" Allan M. Brandt The Cigarette Century Christine Harold...

(don't let that cute smile fool you -- set this guy down and look away for just a moment and he'll have already crawled halfway to R...

L to R: Matt Kory, Bill Denton (Billiam: thanks for sending the photo. Matty: congrats on your nuptials! Thom: beware of Heather “Ronald McD...

I'm seriously starting to think that there's no bloody way I could ever be a reporter again, even if I truly wanted to be one, for r...

Mothballed mauraders hymn "Ave Mumia" (the refrain's a swollen alabaster drone) Sparrows shy South in a lopsided V Bacchant at...

So the other weekend, on one of those extended pre-race preludes that NASCAR is famous for, there was a segment where various drivers and on...