Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Re-Tennessee

Hey, Bob. I live in the part of Nashville that Justin Jones represents (though he is not my representative, his district ends something like 2 streets over,  thanks to an attempt at gerrymandering in the city). The outrage here is quite palpable. The Nashville Metro Council is in charge of appointing Justin Jones’ replacement. Over half […]

Tennessee

Don’t disenfranchise me. It’s one thing to make it harder to vote, it’s quite another to cancel my vote completely and leave me without representation. The day Trump got arraigned someone pointed me to the student protests in Nashville, how come they weren’t all over the news instead of the Former Guy. Even worse, the […]

Seymour Stein

He wasn’t the average record exec. Although I first met Seymour at the Troubadour, when he approached me about something I wrote and then went into a story about Syd Nathan, it wasn’t until 2004, when I went to Tony Wilson’s In The City conference in Manchester, that we began to hang, began to bond. […]

Michael Leon

We were the generation that thought we were going to live forever. Everything they say is true, it goes by in the blink of an eye. However I can’t say that either my high school or college days were the best of my life. I never want to go back to school. I like not […]