Long time readers have followed my complaints that the former progressive rock station WXRT in Chicago has become a shadow of its former self, to which station management thumbs their collective noses at complaints since they are very profitable, especially since they had not competition since WKQX became a news-only station, then a pop station […]

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Yes, Dennis Rodman is an idiot. We’ve always known that. The only thing we can hope is that Kim Jong Un will keep The Worm in North Korea forever. There was a scary report on The Huffington Post yesterday. According to the online news source. Adoph Hitler’s Mein Kampf is the top seller in Amazon’s […]

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With so many others listing their top CDs of the year, it is time to roll out mine. I know that you are supposed to limit your list to 10, but I have a couple of ties that makes my list actually 12, but hey, it’s my site, I don’t have to follow any rules. […]

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Long time readers know that there are few television “journalists” I despise more than ESPN’s resident NBA jackass Stephen A. Smith. Because he sounds “street” and appears to have that same worldview, he has become chummy with a lot of NBA players and hangers-on. So he uses his contacts to spread falsehoods in the name […]

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I admit to hero worship. I am a big fan of a lot of musicians and I do have favorites: Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, The Who, U2, James Brown, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, and many more. One of my favorites is Bruce Springsteen, and last night, I received in the mail a copy of […]

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Somehow something in me never thought there were be a world without Lou Reed. He was too stubborn, too cool, too cantankerous to die. He was the voice of the streets, hustlers and hookers mixed with the artists. In some ways, he was the American version of Keith Richards – yes, we had drug issues, […]

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One thing about today’s political climate that bores me to tears is something happens and then everyone outraged and starts posting things on websites and social media engines. To my chagrin, my liberal brethren have jumped on this bandwagon if only to counter the lies of the Fox News media machine. The latest outrage is […]

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