Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy _________________________________ And while I’ve got your attention, tell EVERYONE you know to read Matt Taibbi’s piece on Goldman Sachs in the latest "Rolling Stone".  You can access a version here: The Great American Bubble Machine

Elvis was before my time.  When he was swiveling his hips on TV, I was still in diapers.  By time he surged back to prominence in the sixties, I was pissed that he was displacing the British Invasion superstars.  But when he died it was weird.  He was so young! I heard the news as […]

Fever Ray "When I Grow Up" I heard this flipping the channels on Sirius.  More specifically, I heard it on XMU. You know how you hear something good and keep waiting for the bad part, to let you down, to disqualify it?  Well that didn’t happen here. I whipped out my pen and wrote down […]

Patty Griffin did "Chief".  Shawn Colvin performed "Twilight" at the appropriate hour.  But the star was Buddy Miller. We’ve heard that you can’t make it after thirty, what about after FIFTY? Conventional wisdom is you build a star through hits.  But what if there are no hits, and no stars?  Welcome to the twenty first […]