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S&R’s Scariest Halloween Videos 2017
A collection of terrifying music and videos for the spookiest night of the year… Happy Samhain. Errr, Halloween. Let’s get the frightfest under way with the definitive Halloween band, shall we? White Zombie: “I’m Your Boogieman” Boy, you really had to see these guys live. Seraphim Shock: “After Dark” One of my favorite Goth bands of all time. Switchblade Symphony:
Read moreBridge to Otherworld: Samhain 2017
Happy Samhain from the staff of S&R…
Read moreAutumn on fire: 1967 Pontiac Le Mans
Fall leaves reflected in a restored 1967 Le Mans
Read moreBlade Runner 2049: a brief reaction
Blade Runner 2049 is a very good film, although it would have benefited from more threatening villains.
Read moreThe lesson of Bush’s Trump speech: someday Sideshow Don will seem statesmanlike, too
Is there any such thing as “conservative enough”? By now most of you are aware of former president George W. Bush’s speech earlier today, in which he offered up a pointed critique of Donald Trump (or someone exactly like him). Bush was certainly right about the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and we all ought to be distressed by the
Read moreThe sacred rose and the guns of love
View larger image at 5280 Lens Mafia… William and Maud I am haunted by numberless islands… – WB Yeats Walking by the shore at dusk, air leaden with a faith in words.
Read moreMark Steyn’s Stephen Paddock theory: it was the liberals
Famous radio mouthpiece knows why the Las Vegas gunman did it. While surfing my morning news feed I tripped across a new theory about the motivation driving Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock. Since investigators have not yet uncovered any agenda on Paddock’s part – nothing political, not religious, didn’t hate Country music, etc. – people are going to speculate.
Read moreOverthinking: rock music, pop culture, Donald Trump and America’s desperate race to the bottom
Donald Trump isn’t an anomaly. He isn’t an outlier. He isn’t a blip on the radar of history. He’s the very embodiment of the black, ignorant American soul. [Apologies in advance. These issues may seem unrelated to some of you, but the dots connect perfectly in my head. I’ll let you know when the big leap is about to happen.]
Read moreSomething old, something new: Ellie Caulkins Opera House
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Read moreHow many drugs are you taking that you don’t even know about? (Hint: a lot.)
Antibiotics, antidepressants, blood thinners, ACE inhibitors, calcium-channel blockers, digoxin, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, painkillers, anti-seizure drugs, cholesterol drugs, diabetes drugs and more – it’s all in your drinking water. Here are five steps to help clean it up. We’ve all read and heard a great deal about pollution in our society – carbon emissions in our air, toxic chemical dumping poisoning
Read moreMessi and Ronaldo stay home? How to make sure all the best players go to the World Cup.
As qualifying wraps up this week, we’re staring at the very real possibility next year’s FIFA World Cup will be staged without Lionel Messi and/or Cristiano Ronaldo. That the greatest competition in world sports, save possibly the Olympics, would fail to include the men most regard as the two greatest players alive (and certainly two of the greatest of all time), seems
Read moreRemembering Ralphie May: Smoking with Jesus
Ralphie May, the comedian many of us first encountered on Last Comic Standing Season 1, is dead at the way-too-young age of 45. Today for Saturday Video Roundup we present one of his greatest routines.
Read morePremier League TV income impasse: are we on the brink of an all-Euro Super League?
Controversy over how to divvy up the revenues means uncertainty in England. The outcome of these deliberations could move us closer to a European SuperLiga including the big six Prem clubs (and maybe more than that)… A couple years ago I wrote about the prospects for a European football SuperLiga. This is hardly a new idea (with Marca suggesting it’s a when-not-if, and perhaps
Read moreThe Industrial Revolution: Old Mill, Bend OR
Dramatic skies over the Old Mill…
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