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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Author Archives: Robert Burke Warren
My Audition for the Ramones
Music editor Robert Burke Warren takes us back to his 1989 audition for The Ramones. Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged C.J. Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, johnny ramone, marky ramone, memoir, punk rock, robert burke warren, the ramones, Tommy Ramone
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The Job of a Lifetime
Former Christmas tree salesman/child wrangler/fire escape painter Robert Burke Warren realizes the day jobs are a significant part of the story. Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Rock and Roll Coffee, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, 90s, athens, day job, ga., go van go, labor day, luis fernandez de la reguera, rbw, robert burke warren, vic varney
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WannaBowies: The Top Twenty Bastards of Bowie
David Bowie, like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, long ago achieved the status of adjective. For Monday Rock City, Robert Burke Warren lists the Top Twenty Bowie Bastards, i.e. the most Bowie-esque soundalikes, stretching from the 70s to the ‘aughts. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David must be feeling pretty special right about now. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, I Want(ed) My MTV, Literature, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged aimee mann, bauhaus, Bowie, David Bowie, Duran Duran, enda walsh, hedwig, iggy, lazarus, lennon, martin fry, phoebe cates, pulp hedwig, robert burke warren, sexton, sisters of mercy, soacehog, suede, til tuesday, Ween, ziggy stardust
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Hasten Down the Wind: Adventures in Babysitting, 1977
What to do when you’re 12 and a mysterious, beautiful, troubled woman moves in next door with her four-year-old? You babysit, of course! RBW offers some more summertime musical memoir. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Saturday Music, Sex, Soul Seduction, The Arts
Tagged 1977, adventures in babysitting, babysitting, bildungsroman, butyl nitrate, coming-of-age, Disco, joys of fantasy: a book for couples, linda ronstadt, your erroneous zones
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The Worst People in America: Donald Rumsfeld
A trillion dollars and countless lost lives later, the Rumsfeld delusion endures. Continue reading
Posted in Worst People in America
Tagged Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, sociopaths, WMD
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Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson
Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading
Song Beneath the Song: Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue”
Bod Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue,” from his 1975 classic Blood On the Tracks, is unfinished. Always has been, always will be. Its incompleteness, however, is part of its power. It is no accident. Dylan engineered “Tangled Up In Blue” to be open-ended, unsealed, and shape-shifting, not unlike a jazz composition. He tinkers with it, sometimes radically reinventing it, both lyrically and melodically, to this day, making it one of the most resilient, resonant unfinished songs ever. Our own Robert Burke Warren gets deep into this distinctive, odd nugget from the Dylan canon. Continue reading
