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Going Rouge – by Helm Matthews
The Mall of America. Minnesota’s homage to crass commercialism. It is a place for banal conversation and corporate coffee—the template suburban white. I love it here. I can walk for hours, getting my exercise and finding inspiration for characters that will inhabit my stories. But on a Monday in early December I found myself at the mall for [...]
Electric Tombstone – The Blind Shake
What we’ gonna do right here is go back...Way back...Back into time.....When the only people that existed were troglodytes....Cavemen... Cavewomen.............. NnnneeEEEANdrethaaalllll......... TROGLODYTE!!! When I’m talkin’ the caveman (or cavewomen for that matter) vibe, I mean simplified, amplified, and repeated. Not “easy,” [...]
The Self Hating Schmuck Who Stole Hanukah
THE SELF HATING SCHMUCK THAT STOLE HANUKAH ( A heartwarming tale about Bernie Madoff) by Rich Kronfeld Every Jew down in Jewville liked Hanukah a lot But the schmuck who lived just east about 1800 miles of Jewville did not The schmuck hated Hanukah the whole Hanukah season No one quite knows the reason It could be the dry [...]
While The City Sleeps: Note From The Publisher
SONG OF THE WEEK: "Watching The Wheels"- John Lennon QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "It's all over but the shouting...means it doesn't matter if the song doesn't make sense, it's the FEELING that matters." -Paul Westerberg, 1987 NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Hey, Hey, righteous readers, wreckless rock n' rollers, and ramblin' roses alike! Wow! We've [...]
Someone, Somewhere Right Now Is Watching Timecop
Someone, Somewhere Right Now Is Watching Timecop By Rich Kronfeld The universe is an uncanny place, full of amazing events taking place constantly. Recent research has suggested that multiple universes exist just angstroms from our own and that all matter is composed of quantum strings that vibrate in and out of our universe to other [...]
Strange Happenings And Peculiar Musings – The Mind Is A Terrible Thing
Strange Happenings And Peculiar Musings By: Helm Matthews The Mind is a Terrible Thing... I was a soulless being wandering into a den of perceived deceit. A misanthropic curmudgeon about to meet a Dianetic explosion. I was going to learn "the modern science of mental health." It was time for my mind to be set free! And I knew the perfect [...]
Reel Kool – Men Who Stare At Goats
By: Jesse Sawyer The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009, Dir Grant Heslov) The opening scene of The Men Who Stares at Goats promises more than the film itself can deliver, and yet spells out exactly what we are about to experience. It opens with a tight shot on the intensely concentrated face of Brigadier General Dean Hopgood (Stephen Lang) as he [...]
Guitar Town – My Favorite Fuzzies
by Gary Vogel My Favorite Fuzzies Distortion. It is the very essence of rock guitar. I remember back when I was an uber-serious teenager on a quest for information on all things related to electronic music equipment. Scouring the stacks at the downtown St. Paul library (they let you do that back then, and they had actual books made of paper, [...]
Legend Of A Working Class Hero: Curtiss A
by Tom Hallett photos by Jay Smiley "I've had enough of watchin' scenes with schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoid prima donnas, all I want is The Truth now/Just give me some Truth..." -"Gimme Some Truth"- John Lennon "I like money but I hate the Rich/They run this place an' the rest of us bitch/Hey! What's there to do about it anyway?/I'd [...]
Classic Rock Of The Future: Weezer
Weezer debuted in the age of the rock star. Pop music still enjoyed a great deal of critical acclaim, and the world was beginning to deify the late Kurt Cobain. Legends consistently outgrew the artist, and that’s the way it had to be. For years, music listeners had believed themselves to be second-class citizens next to the music gods they [...]
