Watch Video, Ignore Beard

Required Viewing

Watch this (and try not to be too put off by Glenn Tilbrook's incomprehensible beard - seriously, what was he thinking?).

It's Not Easy Being Green-ish

I've Heard It Too Many Times to Ignore It

No reason, really.

Just because.



And also this:

Labor Day

Before Monday Holidays and BBQ

Long before billionaires who don't pay taxes decided that working people caused all our financial problems...

Long before there were protections in place to make job sites safe...

Long before paid vacations...

Or weekends off... or the 40-hour work week...

There were people fighting for fairness.

In between the day off, the sports on TV, and the BBQ...

It's good to remember those who went before us... and fought for what made the day off and the BBQ possible.

Just saying.

Made of Layers, Cells, Constellations

One Last Blast of Summer

The heat flies in from over the mountains.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Wet, with flash floods.

It was supposed to be cooler. That's what they promised on the news.

Which, perhaps is why we never listen to the news.



Don't go to Rochester, they said.

I have to go, I responded. I've had the tickets for weeks.

Don't go. The vibe is weird. The vibe is bizarre.

It can't be bad, though, I said. I'd know.

You know it's weird.

That's just the heat. Just the blast from the summer. It's the humidity, not the weirdness.



But.

You know.

You know it wasn't the heat.

And you went. And it was horrible. Worse than you'd imagined.

The lesson isn't Rochester. Although you stayed away for decades.

The lesson was something else. Something you didn'd want to see.

And every year, at the end of summer, or when it just heats up, you remember.

Fuck Rochester. Sure, there's that.

But when you let yourself breathe, you know there was more. Flying in from over the mountains. With the flash floods and the heartache.

New Paul McCartney

Who gnu?



And a bonus radio call-in interview on yesterday's New Music show at XRT. Click here for details.

Africa Is Choking on Their Coca-Cola

There is a rose that I want to live for...

Please enjoy these two songs from the end of the year that seem better fitted to the end of the summer.

Three Female Takes (With Bonus Haiku)

Clouds form in the sky



Miscreants Slink Along Roads



It's that time of year.