Music Monday: The Roland S-1 Tweak Synth
Yes, they were tacky. Yes, they attempted to grant unto the venerable keyboard the rock star charisma of the guitar. But hear me out…
Yes, they were tacky. Yes, they attempted to grant unto the venerable keyboard the rock star charisma of the guitar. But hear me out…
This week’s Music Monday topic: The Magnetic North’s 2012 debut album Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a beautiful homage to the archipelago
The best records are the ones that can both grab you immediately but also grow on you. Joe Hollick’s Rest Lessness does that.
The country genre implies the presence of certain tropes which The Dead South don’t employ. So, what is their sound?
Rare is the instrumental album which explores its theme in a coherent way to both artist and listener. Such an album is Dean McPhee’s Astral Gold
Does this way lie madness? Perhaps, but it also leads to some damn fine maple syrup.
This is not about every libertarian. However, the basic tenets of libertarianism draw some people with poor social impulses and instincts.
It stems from two ideas: that New Hampshire is not diverse and that New Hampshire is too small. Both statements are ludicrous.
When Mike Pence turned to shake my hand Saturday morning in New Hampshire, one of the most absurd events in my life began to unfold.
Cryptocurrencies, Explained: Arboreal mastication of the liminal turophilic angstrom usually results in–your mileage may vary!–platonic lucre
The following is fiction. As far as we know, the real Mike Pence is not, in fact, the “laddie from Dunedin” or Chieftan of Clan MacPence
Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston. So, “The Raven” in a transliterated mock Boston accent in thrilling Standard Definition video
Sports fans have a tendency to code-switch into the appropriate sports dialect when talking about the various sports people play or consume.
This story is fictional. To the best of our knowledge, the real Mike Pence did not chase a bunch of carnies down in an autogyro.
This story is entirely fictional. To our knowledge, the real Mike Pence has never had any run-ins with Augustus Cobbledick.
In fairness, not all collective failures are like the stock photos above, however.Sometimes there are systems involved that encourage collective failure.
“I’m Founding Father Ben Franklin, and I’ve got a friend named James Madison who wants you to make him a flute out of this mysterious crystal skull that he had stolen from some innocent BIPOC in Peru.”
These folks are united in their humorless worldview. What better way to counter this trend, then, but with humor.
John Paul Jones goes, “Dude, I am going to get all up in the grill of British merchant shipping in the English Channel.” He’s stoked.
Apocryphal stories of Maine prisoners and John Adams aside, the very real fact that lobster was, until relatively recently, a poverty food.