"Take Me Out" by Atomic Tom LIVE on NYC subway Who cares? You know how you know something’s fake?  When you get e-mailed about it ad infinitum from the moment of its genesis. They used to call it viral video.  Did you ever get a virus and get deathly ill in a DAY?  OF COURSE […]

What do I know about Courteney Cox? She started off as Ian Copeland’s secretary and love interest.  And then she was featured in a Bruce Springsteen video back when we were innocent and didn’t realize she wasn’t a fresh young thing plucked from obscurity, but an actress.  Then she was on "Friends" and became rich […]

I got into this sitting on the tarmac in Syracuse.  Turns out there were three tunnels dug.  And the one that won, the one that reached the stranded miners first, was American. There’s a drill bit with hammers.  Which kept breaking.  But this Pennsylvania company kept replacing the hammers and ultimately achieved victory over its […]

Led Zeppelin was reviled by the critics.  Garnering little mainstream press, the band’s first album built momentum over the spring and summer of 1969 and then in the fall, the band released the less than creatively entitled "II", "Whole Lotta Love" blistered onto the airwaves and suddenly, Led Zeppelin was the biggest act in the […]