Before I get into any of that, I just wanted to say that it's simply nice to see that Andrés Galarraga, a k a the Big Cat, is still alive and looking very healthy. He was always easily one of my favorite Major League Baseball players, and was diagnosed with cancer way back in 2000, so it was just g...

Sexy siren and star of Rob Reiner's 1994 classic North Scarlett Johansson has covered a Jeff Buckley song. And it sucks. And you can hear it inside! And if that's not what gets people to click inside blog threads then we've been going at this Internet thing all wrong! What if we told you we had nude...

One of the more amazing music write-ups that I've seen. But I'm no ethnomusicologist. But wasn't the whole point of the 90s that things shouldn't be commodified, especially culture? Wasn't the rule that you picked hot emotion over cool style, grit over lifestyle, ethics over aesthetics? How did the ...

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations unusually leaving me scratching my head in bewilderment.  Either the nominators need to shape up, or perhaps I need to switch to a new shampoo.  The nominees tend to be those that were in the tributaries flowing into the main river of Rock and Rol...

The shopping expedition of earlier went according to plan and we kinda went a bit overboard in H&M as they had a '70% off' sale on, so de daughter has practically a whole new wardrobe with lots and lots of new stripey socks to match. We added in some DVD's, a perfume and some jewellery and trink...