In the community’s discussion of my previous post, an interesting subject reared its cute little head. To wit, there are bands out there who are tremendously important, but are mainly important for their influence rather than for their own musical output. I thought I’d invite nominations. Three that spring immediately to mind are: My Bloody Valentine Sonic Youth Stone Roses

The Observer is trying to stir it up again, this time with a feature on the “50 albums that changed music.” Fifty years old this month, the album chart has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually altered the course of music. To mark the anniversary, Kitty Empire pays tribute to a sublime art

This is the sort of priceless stuff you just can’t make up. Terrell Owens is now claiming that he was misquoted – wait for it – in his own autobiography. (Story.) (How they get such big fish in such a small barrell I’ll never know.) I’m sorry, but this is just too easy. I mean, I realize it would be

So I’m sitting here, finally putting together some content for my company’s Pagan/Wiccan/Alternative spirituality mobile program. I want to do a few items so we can develop a sales sample sheet. I do an item on symbology, then one with a historical twist, and then one on a neat pagan symbols font set you can download. And I’m thinking, okay,

A few days ago I wrote that I have some ideas about how FIFA (and the various national football governing federations) can go about cleaning up the beautiful game, which lately hasn’t been so beautiful. Diving, flopping, “simulation” and bad melodrama defined way too many games in Copa 2006, and I can think of at least three or four places

nsingman has a comment on catwhite‘s post here. My response articulated a bit of my view on a very important and complicated subject, so I pulled it out and am posting here. ________________________ See, there’s a bit of a conundrum here. On the one hand, I strongly resist patriarchal policies built on the idea that people aren’t smart enough to

Marysweetmuthaofjebus….

What a weird match. 1: Generally, this is a good ref who called a really good game. Except for three little things: The PK shouldn’t have been – Malouda dived. However, the later takedown in the box on Malouda was a legit foul and should have been a PK. So we’re even at this point. Toni’s header should have been

Man, somebody at the AP copy desk is either asleep at the wheel or having way too much fun at the expense of political reportage today. Check these two grafs from their story on the Lieberman/Lamont debate (byline: Susan Haigh, Political Writer): “If he hoped to swing anybody, I think he used the wrong tact,” Tendler said of Lieberman’s efforts

… Ronaldo slammed the referee for not paying Portugal enough respect. ‘We played well and did our best but the referee didn’t help us,’ the 21-year-old Manchester United forward said. ‘Everyone who saw the match could see that the referee wasn’t fair. ‘He should have shown yellow cards but he did not because Portugal is a small country. We just

No gravedancing here, that’s for sure. In fact, it’s a damned shame Kenny Boy got to die before serving his time in prison. I imagine its hard for all those people who lost their life savings not to feel a little cheated right about now… Kenneth L. Lay, Ex-Chairman of Enron, Dies

Like most everything Hal Crowther writes, “Sympathy for the Devils?” is brilliantly struck. It’s about 98% right on the money (which is actually about 2% low by his standards). The two percent:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2006 Lullaby Pit Records to Release Superstar Tribute to Jangle Pop Legend Don Dixon (Winston-Salem NC) – Lullaby Pit Records today announced that it will release a superstar tribute to Jangle Pop legend Don Dixon in early 2007. Label president Sam Smith said that “Dixon is one of the finest recording artists of our time,

Some people who have listened to my yarping about brand issues for awhile eventually feel they have to challenge me: “You’re talking about operations, org dev, HR – you’re not talking about brand at all.” True or false? Well, both. It just seems that when I dissect a case where a brand has gone wrong, I find that the underlying

I noted recently that I’ve been asked to join the blogging crew at IABC. I’ll probably xpost a lot of what I write for them here. Here’s the inaugural entry. _____________ When I was younger I worked in restaurants. Waited tables, bartended, and supervised a staff of 50+ waiters. Waiting, in particular, taught me a lot of lessons. For instance: