May 15th, 2008 by dedfischer
Good Morning, You’re on Tradio.
My great grandfather, my grandfather and now my father were/are farmers in the Texas Panhandle. Needless to say, I grew up spending 70% of my summers on the tractor, while my peers worked on their tan as lifeguards at the pool or sacked groceries at the local store, and further […]
May 14th, 2008 by HenryJames
If you’re familiar with Mickey Rourke, you know him as the guy who has had a lot of plastic surgery and happened to steal the show with his performance in Sin City. But I’m telling you, Mickey Rourke was wrecking shit in the ’80s. The guy put together a string of performances that were exceptional […]
May 12th, 2008 by HenryJames
For those of you living here in the United States of Amnesia, you probably don’t remember Billy Squier. It’s not your fault. The music industry is fickle, and past stars are forgotten all the time. Rick Rubin can’t rehabilitate everyone.
But Billy Squier was/is a fantastic rock singer and guitarist who put out a great body […]
May 12th, 2008 by Doperbo
Every year about this time for some reason I get the urge to brew a large batch of home made beer. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps it’s deeply embedded in my DNA, some biannual farmer/peasant urge tied to thousands of years of festivals and the spring harvest. Maybe it’s just Scottish genetics, like […]
May 10th, 2008 by Scipio Tex
Despite reading numerous articles plainly stating that aggressively changing out your running shoes and getting an assessment from a trained running shop consultant are the keys to pain-free running, I’ve always liked to seek my own counsel. This means buying whatever shoes were on sale if they felt OK walking around the store and […]
May 9th, 2008 by Scipio Tex
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
One hundred years ago, Barking Carnival would have been blogging enthusiastically about America’s three obssessions: baseball, boxing and horseracing. Blogging back then largely consisted of standing on a street corner crate shrieking incoherent opinions about immigrants while backed […]
May 8th, 2008 by ChrisApplewhite
How can you tell it’s not football season? We are talking about comic books. I have a feeling that the demographic for this is me and me alone but I’m doing this anyway because Ain’t It Cool News won’t post my reviews ever since I admitted that I liked the second Matrix movie better than […]
May 6th, 2008 by EyesOfTX
I was fortunate enough to have attended New Orleans’ Jazzfest over the weekend, and my brain cells have finally regenerated to the point where I’m able to write about it. Three nights at the Old Absinthe House and two mornings of bloody marys at the Chartre House will have that effect on a person.
BTW, […]
May 6th, 2008 by TaylorTRoom
Every decade has its own unique goofiness- the ’40s had zoot suits, and the frontal lobotomy as a treatment for depression, the ’80s had Boy George, but I think one decade in the 20th century sticks out for embracing crazy ideas. This is not a matter of political leanings, or taste; this is about […]
May 5th, 2008 by HenryJames
I’m a rocker through and through. Here’s a list of my favorite bands: AC/DC, Van Halen not Van Hagar, Skynyrd, Def Leppard…and now Black Tide.
They’re four teenagers from Miami who are one of only a handful of new metal bands I’ve liked in the last 15 years. The guitars sound crisp and the drums don’t […]