I recently burned out my second iPod. The battery was dying, and I use my iPod daily at work to keep me sane. I can’t work in a quiet environment, especially if I have something important to get done. I need noise. For years, I drug CD players and discs to work so that I […]

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While I was away, the e-Street Band’s saxophonist and Bruce Springsteen’s main foil for decades, Clarence Clemons died after having suffered a stroke the week before. When a friend and I saw Springsteen almost 2 years ago, we discussed the possibility of it being the last time. Danny Federici was gone, and everyone knew that […]

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Time.com reported this last week, but I didn’t have time to post it then A woman pretended to be a 17-year-old to draw out incriminating evidence from her ex-husband via Facebook, but he turned the tables on her. The pair are in the midst of a nasty custody battle apparently. The woman, 29-year-old Angela Voelkert, […]

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Two words: GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!

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The Huffington Post reported today that Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has pleaded guilty to participating in a rampage during student protests that included an attack on a royal convoy last December 9th. Thousands of students demonstrated against rising university tuition fees, with some protesters having broken away from the main […]

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I know that I have two children named after female British monarchs, and I love James Bond, Doctor Who and Monty Python, so I’m an Anglophile. However, I was able to avoid the pomp and pageantry when Prince Charles married Diana 30 years ago, and I will not pay much attention to their son William […]

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Why would anyone renew an argument that you’ve already won? As long time readers of this site know, I got into a spirited debate with John Farneda of WXRT a few weeks ago in which it was determined that we will never see an expansion of the playlist beyond the same old songs because the […]

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