As noted last time, sometimes the dialogue in Big Bang Theory presents us with lines that just beg to be band names. Here’s my second set of 10. The first one is maybe my favorite of all. Pretty Boys in the Big City Ginormous Knob Penny Penny Penny
Read moreI love The Big Bang Theory and have watched all the episodes multiple times (some I’ve probably seen 20 times or more). I noticed that sometimes the characters say things that would make good band names. Or at least, perhaps, entertaining bands names. I have written some of them down and will present them in a series, ten at a
Read moreWe’ve had two decades to get to know former First Lady, former Senator and former Secretary Clinton. We look at that history and we understand something you don’t: she isn’t one of us. First, a caveat: this article is not about all Clinton voters. Many of you support her candidacy for reasons I don’t agree with, but you do so in good
Read moreHappy Vernal Equinox from S&R.
Read moreQ: What’s the Mexican word for “heat”? A: El heat. Yes, the La NBA is back with its annual Latin Heritage promotion, where it pays tribute to the league’s Latino fans by replacing the English team names on uniforms with their Mexican equivalents. Examples: As you can see, it’s easy to speak Mexican.
Read more2016 is a watershed moment. If November features Clinton vs Trump, the Republicans win regardless of how the election turns out. It’s the economy, stupid. Big thanks to our friend Rich James for passing along this analysis in today’s Atlantic. (Pardon the longish snip here – it’s important.) But on issue after issue, Trump vows to use government as a tool to
Read moreAn unremarkable corner in downtown Denver. No signage announces the nature of the business within. But this is My Brother’s Bar, one of the 5280’s most historic spots, and if you know a bit about the Beats, you know that this is the place from Kerouac’s On the Road. Everything has changed around it, but the place itself? More or less the
Read moreLast night a topic in the GOP debate was how big Donald Trump’s dick is. (The over/under line in Vegas is 1½ inches. Erect.) Normally this is where somebody says something like “wow, they’ve really hit rock bottom this time” or “damn it can’t get any worse than that.” But this is the modern Republican Party. Of course it can get worse,
Read moreToday on SVR we honor Dire Straits, one of my all-time favorite bands. I will always remember the exact moment when I first heard Mark Knopfler’s opening note of “Down to the Waterline” – that was back when kids who loved music sat around together in the basement and listened to their big brothers’ and big sisters’ albums. End to end.
Read moreMatt Grimm offers up a new campaign anthem. Line of the year: “What if ideas were the only things too big to fail?”
Read moreDear everybody freaking out because some people think the Bernie Sanders economic plan can’t pay for itself. Three things: 1) You can’t work with recent historical data as your assumption because the Sanders approach throws it out and works off different assumptions entirely. 2) Okay, okay. That’s true but I don’t have the time to explain why in detail. So let’s go
Read moreHail Caesar! was great, but it’s badly outnumbered by formulaic Hollywood rehashes. Back in the day I used to travel. A lot. As director of international strategy for a major corporation, I spent much of my life on planes. I actually once flew from Chicago to Milan for a one hour meeting, flying a red-eye out and the Concorde back.
Read more#YesMovement #ThankYouDanielBryan It’s always hard to watch these damned things, when someone who loves something so completely and passionately has to walk away. But years of concussions took their toll, and finally WWE superstar Daniel Bryan has been forced to hang up his boots. He was a fantastic talent and he will be missed. Sadly, given all that we are
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