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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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Category Archives: Appreciations
Welcome Thieves: An Appreciation
Our own Robert Burke Warren waxes on about Sean Beaudoin’s stellar, rockin’ Welcome Thieves. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, Literature, Matters of Faint Import, Memoir, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged algonquin, robert burke warren, Sean Beaudoin, welcome thieves
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David Bowie: The Man Who Owned the World
David Bowie didn’t merely innovate; he wrought aesthetic and stylistic changes and, like an irrepressible Pied Piper, people followed him wherever he went. Continue reading
DWTS 21: Projections and Predictions for Season 21 of Dancing with the Stars
Greg Olear’s projections for the new season of Dancing with the Stars. Continue reading
Arthur Cravan: Pugilist, Poet, Provocateur, Ponce, and the Queering of the Queensbury Rules
Arthur Cravan’s ambivalent burlesque of boxing was —as was typical of his style— a public insult and act of revenge against the Marquis of Queensbury. Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur CRavan, boxing, Marquis of Queensbury, Oscar Wilde, Queensbury Rules
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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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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
