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
Elvis Presley’s Shining Moment: the ’68 Comeback Special
Although most folks don’t know it, Black Leather Elvis was the best Elvis, and Robert Burke Warren explains why. Black Leather Elvis, who rose briefly in 1968 before drugs and despair ruined him, will steal your rock and roll heart. Continue reading
Behind the Music of Moonbeam City: An Interview With Mark Brooks
“I assume we’ve boned, but could you remind me of your name?” If the idea of Rob Lowe delivering this line as a sleazy and wince-inducingly narcissistic cop strikes you as more than a tad funny, then welcome to Moonbeam … Continue reading
Posted in Monday Rock City
Tagged animation, comedy, Creepy Rob Lowe, Dazzle Novak, electronic music, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Mara, Mark Brooks, moonbeam city, Night Club, Rob Lowe, Toto, Will Forte
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We Wish You a Merry Sixmas
Was there ever a better Christmas mixtape than Merry Sixmas? Likely not. Our music editor Robert Burke Warren takes us back to the 80s, when a second-generation cassette mix made by a stranger named Eddie G opened up a whole new way of listening to and sharing music. Continue reading
50 Rock & Roll Songs That Increased My Word Power
Weeklings music editor Robert Burke Warren gets revved up like a deuce and reveals how time you spend “wasting” – i.e. listening to rock and roll – is not wasted time. Not at all. Readers Digest would be proud. Increase your own word power! Bismillah! Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged AMerican Pie, Beatles, bismillah, bustle, calliope, cunnilingus, fellatio, freddie mercury, Funkadelic, hare krishna, juju, kama sutra, labelle, Led Zeppelin, levee, lyrics, Masturbation, orgy, pederasty, Queen, readers digest, robert burke warren, rolling stones, scaramouche, Skynyrd, sodomy, springsteen, the streak, toe jam, troubadour, union jack, Weeklings, word power
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Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Jimmy Wayne — Good Things Coming from Hard Times
Abandoned by his jailbird mama in a Greyhound bus station at age 13, singer-songwriter Jimmy Wayne seemed destined for destitution and an early grave. But through the kindness of strangers – “God sends strange angels,” he says – Wayne rose to become a hit songwriter, author, and advocate for the homeless. J.M. Blaine gets some down-home philosophy from Wayne, plus tidbits about Ozzy, the Nashville song mill, and Daryl Hall’s indoor pool. Continue reading
Posted in Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts
Tagged ac/dc, Hall & Oates, Homelessness, iron maiden, Jamie Blaine, Jimmy Wayne, Ken Abraham, Ozzy Osbourne, Stay Gone, Walk to Beautiful
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