Required Reading
- 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: Memoir
Serving Time In Sonic Youth
You’ve seen Renaissance man and esteemed guest Weekling Richard Edson onscreen in Do the Right Thing, Platoon, Stranger Than Paradise, and dozens of other films, but you probably don’t know he was the original drummer in seminal NYC post-punk noise mavens Sonic Youth. In this fascinating slice of life, he shares his riveting account of being a participant in several crucial music movements at once. The arty, funky, early 80s East Village lives again! Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Literature, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, eighties, konk, lower east side, richard edson, sonic youth
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My Rock & Roll Paris
I was in the land where the creators are revered; Paris greets artists with an affection so strong it gives an energy boost, life force, enabling one to go back to the blank space with faith, with no fear. And indeed, I was not afraid. I was the opposite of afraid. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Paris, robert burke warren, The Fleshtones
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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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Over/Under the Volcano
When it comes to alcohol, as soon as you stop feeling the pain, it’s because you’re no longer feeling much of anything. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged '50s, alcohol, alcoholism, hangovers, Service Industry, Sobriety
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So Good It Hurts: On Choosing Music for “Revenge of the Mekons”
The director of the critically acclaimed documentary “Revenge of the Mekons” gives a rare inside look at the painstaking task of choosing songs for a music documentary. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Music, Popular Culture
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Prisons In America: Incarceration as Political Philosophy
In the second installment of this 2-part series, Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden discuss the prison system in America, looking at the Prison Industrial Complex as a highly intentional system of control, as well as a rarely-examined political philosophy. Continue reading
