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: Monday Rock City
Protecting Pop’s Pilloried Plagiarists
It’s the sincerest form of flattery, and it’s not going away, but imitation as a means of creation does not enjoy the acceptance it once did. What once was homage is now plagiarism. Guest Weekling Charlie Clissitt goes to bat for practitioners of the age-old art of looking over the shoulders of giants. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Bob Dylan, jay z, kanye, mia, Otis Redding, Pitbull, Shakespeare, the clash, toots and the maytals
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Fender Jazz
I had only recently discovered the glories of a naked body entwined with mine and, like every sex neophyte since time began, I had figured nothing would ever compare. I was wrong. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Sex, The Arts
Tagged bildungsroman, Fender Jazz, robert burke warren
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Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Captain & Tennille’s Toni Tennille
They were known as pop’s most wholesome duo, a husband and wife team beloved for their dazzling smiles, love-conquers-all message and super-cute songs about butterscotch castles, muskrat kisses and Disney girls. But was there more to the story for multi-platinum, Grammy-winning, hit TV stars Captain … Continue reading
Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Eric Spitznagel, author of Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for his Vinyl & His Past
What might possess a person to go looking for their old records? The very same copy of Slippery When Wet that Heather scrawled her phone number on in high school, that Replacements Let it Be from college that still smells … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Joel, Blockbuster, Boo Berry, Charlie, Debbie, Eric Spitznagel, Fast Times, KISS, Old Records Never Die
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Monday Rock City: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ace Frehley Talks Sobriety, Space Travel & Making Peace with KISS
The first time I saw KISS was around second or third grade, just after my parents had split. I went to a K-12 school out in the sticks and there was a senior named Tony Gilley who wore a purple … Continue reading
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Tagged ace frehley, Alive II, Cream, gene simmons, Jamie Blaine, jimi hendrix, John 5, KISS, Origins Vol. 1, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Slash, Steppenwolf, The Weeklings
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Monday Rock City: A Conversation with “Petty: The Biography” Author Dr. Warren Zanes
Jamie Blaine sits down for a fascinating chat with author Warren Zanes about his much-lauded biography of rock n’ roll icon Tom Petty. Continue reading
