Archive for the 'biography' Category
Meat is Murder
From 1992 until about 2000, I was a vegetarian. Eggs, milk, and cheese were all part of my diet, but red meat, poultry, and fish were out. That all changed when I moved to Philadelphia, or to be more specific when I was at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival with Jim and Jennie. [...]
Read More..>>Personal Thoughts on Mark Foley
First and foremost, I want to say that Mark Foley deserves everything he has coming to him, and that had better be a lot.
Second of all, the House Republican Leadership, which seems to have nothing about this, is despicable. These pompous, strutting bullshit artists and their proclamations about “protecting the children of America blah [...]
More on Hardcore and Political Consciousness
In 1983 I was an angry, lonely, and misunderstood 13-year-old. Most of this was rooted in what was going on at home: my mother had surrendered to her alcoholism and spent half of her time in a staggering, unpredictable drunken rage, and the other half in her room with the door locked, recuperating from [...]
Read More..>>Verbal Assault
Verbal Assault
I grew up on this music, and in fact went to high school with these guys. Good retrospective, and a great essay, “More Than Music” by Chris Jones.
I’ll write more about this later.
But in reference to my first hardcore show, here’s the flyer:
Good times. If you manage to get your paws on the [...]
Read More..>>The FU’s: Boston Hardcore
Down below at the Stop Specter post, I got a comment from Jon Sox, and it made my day.
If you’re not from Rhode Island or Boston, or for that matter you’re not in your mid-thirties, or you didn’t grow up on hardcore and punk, that name probably doesn’t mean anything to you.
But to me, it’s [...]
I’ll Give It a Shot
Atrios writes, of upper-class twit and congenital liar Sebastian Mallaby:
I’m not going to claim to have a deep understanding of living life as a member of the working poor - and, no, years of being a relatively impoverished grad student don’t really qualify - but I do know the experience of someone in that situation [...]
Light Bloggery This Week
I’ve been a bit remiss on blogging this week. I have bluegrass festivals coming up, my girl is back in town, and I have Sam time coming up as well. Also, we’re in the crunch at work as far as grants are concerned: for those of you that don’t know, that’s how I [...]
Read More..>>Hmmm…. Remind You of Anything?
Savage Love
My 34-year-old sister, call her “Carrie,” came out to the family a week ago and is looking for us all to support the decisions she’s making surrounding her coming out.
Background: My sister has been somewhat happily married for 14 years and has four children, all under the age of 12. She wants to move [...]
-Sigh- There Goes My Punk Cred.
Y’all are gonna hate me for it, but I will not deny my Phish years. My friends from Portsmouth used to see them at the Living Room in Providence (the original one with the bubble window) in the late 1980s, when they were at the same level as godawful Max Creek. My mom never [...]
Read More..>>-Sigh-
Buddy, I miss you so much it’s making me crazy, making me evil.
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