Several hundred fans of the Monkey With a Gun blog have written in to note that all of the songs on the new feature “Lost Tracks” had something to do with blondes. First, it was Concrete Blonde, and then yesterday, 4 Non Blondes. My first thought was, that’s ridiculous, yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with blondes because the 4 Non Blondes are “NON Blondes.” How could a NON blonde have anything to do with blondes? Does NOT breathing have anything to do with breathing? Is it me? It’s them, right? Continue reading
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On Nicknames and All That
If you read the scientific literature, and I have, guys use nicknames to establish dominance over one another. The guy giving the nickname effectively strips the other guy of his very identity, and assigns him a new name. Brutal if you think about it. Continue reading
Lost Tracks – Joey by Concrete Blonde
So I’m starting a new feature called “Lost Tracks” to get us through what I think everyone will agree is the absolute worst time of the year. The Super Bowl is over, Valentine’s Day is depressing, the weather sucks, March Madness hasn’t started yet and baseball is a month and a half away. Really nothing whatsoever to recommend this section of the calendar. You could pull my fingernails out one by one until I identified a worse time of the year and I would bleed out from the ends of my fingers and thumbs. Continue reading
Valentine’s Day is Stupid, You Guys
“Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out and find no one there.” – Justice Anthony Kennedy, Obergefell v. Hodges Continue reading
Top X Eagles Songs
RIP, Glenn Frey and with him, The Eagles. “We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.” Continue reading
Super Bowl “50” My Ass
WTF is up with this being Super Bowl “50”. To hell with that, this is Super Bowl L!! Continue reading
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