Archive for 2007/06


Selling Little Big Town

They were playing Little Big Town on both Sirius and XM. Sirius plays directly through my Alpine head unit. And installed right beneath that is my XM Commander, plugged into the Alpine’s Aux outlet for full-range sound. So, while I’m listening on Sirius, I can see what’s playing on XM simultaneously. And switch if I […]

Love Is A Mix Tape

What can you say about a twenty five year old girl who died? Well, maybe she was a couple of years older than that. But one day, Rob Sheffield’s wife, Renee, just keeled over and died. Just like that. No illness, no warning, just kaput. How do you cope with that? By writing a book. […]

Clintons/Sopranos

Is this Hillary’s "Arsenio" moment? Bill Clinton rode to victory in ’92 as the candidate of the baby boomers, someone hip enough to drive a pickup and play the sax, someone who BELIEVED in Elvis as opposed to pooh-poohing him. But Bill Clinton had sex appeal. If you’re watching TV, or reading the newspapers, you’re […]

Right Where I Need To Be

I remember the exact moment I fell in love with "Sweet Home Alabama". It was in a traffic jam. I was driving cross-country, right after Labor Day, right after I’d graduated from college. I took two days to get to K.C. And after a week there, I got back into my car and headed for […]