Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
If Halloween is about taking a little trip to the dark, spooky, loony side of life, then every day is Halloween for me. Always has been. I was born in the Season of the Witch, and the mysterious and the macabre are my muses. For me, thrills and chills don’t come in the form of … Read more
“What’s with all this telephone nonsense of “‘Press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish’? You live in America. Speak American, you damn illegals, or go home.” Ah, the words of the xenophobes. Well, yer blogger has figuratively “pressed 2 for English” in every country she’s ever visited. In the 1970s, my little school offered … Read more
When I was 16, the woman whose bedroom was above mine in our apartment building was forced to move because I wouldn’t stop playing Led Zeppelin’s “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” at warp sound. I mean, I feel bad about it now, but at the time I felt such a sense of…victory! Behold, the power of … Read more
Post-communist Czechoslovakia was a country reborn of the fire of rock and roll! Today is the 26th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution, a peaceful student-led anti-government protest movement that led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in December 1989. The name of the revolution stemmed directly from Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground, … Read more
Guido Barilla, president of the world’s largest manufacturer of boxed pasta, has vowed his company would never feature homosexuals in its ads: “I would never make a spot with a homosexual family,” he said yesterday on Italy’s radio program La Zanzara (The Mosquito). “Not out of a lack of respect but because I do not … Read more