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Though I do not see her as the anti-Christ that many bloggers do, Maureen Dowd is largely a glib, fatuous, fantasy-liberal boob. In a rare case of demonstrable sentience, however, Dowd has gone 1-for-2 in her latest columns. On the 13th she exhibited an actual sense of how blogs work …

Recalling musical parodist Allan Sherman.

I just put up a fairly extensive post about the Blackout – which now appears to have begun right here in Northeast Ohio – on my Cleveland.com blog: I hope you are well, safe, and not terribly inconvenienced after 100 power plants in eight states and two Canadian provinces went …

Today is my lovely, charming, talented, often-sweet-but-sometimes-flinty, opinionated-but-not-dogmatic, very pregnant and feeling self-conscious about it (December, boy) wife’s birthday. She thinks she’s getting old – due to the fact that we all age at the same rate, she’ll always be young to me. She is a remarkable, loving mother and …

With the Stones running around conquering the world 40 years after their first tour, I thought it might be interesting to look back at the formative years when things were still fluid and an institution they were not. I talked to the Stones’ original manager and producer, Andrew Loog Oldham, …

CNN is reporting massive blackouts: Major power outages reported in New York City, other parts of Northeast, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities. Details soon. Does anyone know anything about this? I am in suburban Cleveland but we aren’t having any problems – I guess if you have no electricity you …

In the mad blizzard of news we somehow neglected to mention the passing of jazz flute great Herbie Mann on July 1: Herbie Mann, the versatile jazz flutist who combined a variety of musical styles and deeply influenced trends such as world music and fusion, has died. He was 73. …

I’ll admit it – I have a pretty short musical attention span. My mind still works in vinyl album-side mode: after about 20 minutes of the same artist I tend to drift. It is the rare CD that holds my attention for a full 60 or 70 minutes, and due …

On our vacation we watched a fair number of movies at night on actual TV, not something we’d normally do what with commercials, clumsy editing and the like, but doing weird things is what vacations are all about, baby. So anyway, we watched Men in Black and our almost 4-year-old …

I love EP’s, especially from new bands: short, sweet, no filler, no “bonus tracks,” no farts and sniffles in place of songs to fill up CD space – just the best a band can come up with to sell the world on their viability. I am convinced Eyes Like Knives …