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I know, I know. I haven't posted here since before Occupy Wall Street. Hell, the last time I posted here we still thought there as a possibility that Sarah Palin might run for president. In my defense, I've been waylaid by work and anxiety and work anxiety, which is in itself another kind of work. It's all about watching the mailbox now, waiting on the...
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"My eyes saw red when my life turned blue / so I'm leavin' everything that's true."

No reason for posting this, really; it just popped into my head. And it's always a pleasure to watch two of IRS Records' smartest guys at work. What gives, Stewart Copeland? You used to do a soundtrack a week.

Today in Things Beatnik Writes for Money: Check out my interview with Glen Duncan, author of The Last Werewolf. Arooo.

There's a part of me that wants to re-invest time and effort into the old MySpace account now that the site is being sold for spare parts. It's the same part of me that doubles down on the losing team, because crushing victories are boring and goddamn it, we deserve something less creepy than Facebook. And then another part remembers: Oh yeah, MySpace is Rupert...
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Summer reading: Finished David Matthews' "Kicking Ass and Saving Souls" and Glen Duncan's "The Last Werewolf" and interviewed their authors. Now reading Jon Meacham's "American Lion," a biography of Andrew Jackson. He was a complicated man and no one understood him but his woman, who died the very night of his inauguration. And I think he was a werewolf too.

No matter dark the night, no matter how dire the circumstances, "Under Pressure" always serves to bail me out. The song was released when I was ... what, 12 years old? Long before I fully understood who David Bowie was and what he'd accomplished, and long before anyone knew that Freddie Mercury was concealing his sexuality from stadiums full of hard-rocking homophobes. No matter how...
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