Goddamn, this whole Michael Jackson thing depresses me. There is no upside to any of it: either he really is a flat-out depraved pervert Skeletor pederast of the most manipulative motherfucking kind, or he is a misunderstood childlike freak who is being railroaded by opportunistic hangers-on and politicians bent on …

I don’t know if this can be attributed to an “environment of fear” foisted upon the nation by the current administration, or that the manager of the Chelsea Market is a big Bush supporter, feared some kind of political or public repercussion, or is just a humorless dipshit, but “Bush …

Harvey Pekar has a problem. Of course, the obsessive depressive retired V.A. hospital file clerk, populist rust belt intellectual, acute cultural observer and splenetic comic book pioneer has more than one problem, as he’d be the first to tell you. But Pekar’s CENTRAL problem is that relatively few of his …

Somehow I missed cognition of Langerado’s 1 and 2, but number 3 sounds mighty appealing for an early spring thaw-out for wandering pale skins. The third annual Langerado Music Festival will be held at Markham Park in Sunrise, Florida, a sprawling facility perched at the eastern edge of the Everglades …

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …

A public memorial service for guitarist Dimebag Darrell will take place tomorrow night, December 14th, at 8 p.m. at the Arlington Convention Center in Arlington, Texas. Those wishing to make a donation in Dimebag’s name, two special memorial funds have been established. The Dimebag Darrell Memorial Fund has been set …

With his ’02 smash “No Shoes No Shirt (No Problems),” Kenny Chesney moved into classic Jimmy Buffett territory crafting a transcendent summertime hit that made him a crossover favorite as well as the highest of the hats. You’d think that under the circumstances the guy could find a hat that …

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MTV news talked with a security expert on the murder of Dimebag Darrell Abbott and three others at a Columbus rock club last week, which migh thave been prevented with a $50 handheld metal detector: “It should have been a common practice. It should have been something they had,” said …

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich pays tribute to Dimebag Darrell Abbott on the Metallica site: This is unbelievable. To sit here and talk about Darrell in the past tense seems so wrong, so unfair, so unjust, I don’t even know what to say. My heart goes out to Vinnie, to their …