"I was watching television last night when an infomercial came on selling a "Best hits of the seventies" compilation. The track-listing was about 90 percent ridiculous: all disco, early hair rock (and not the good ones), and a few good tracks from Marvin Gaye & Al Green thrown in as..."

"Remember my recent series, the Beatles A to Z posts? Well, they were so unpopular (zero comments y’all!), that I’m gonna do another one! This time, it’s just the solo work of the fab four, covered. I’m not doing a zip file this time because nobody seems to care when..."

"No nostalgic or philosophical musings today, just a tip of the hat to one of the Great Moments in Comic Book HistoryTM: Captain America engaged in a life and death struggle with the VW Beetle that crashed though the window of his third-story Brooklyn apartment: (from Captain America #222, June..."

"Pas/Cal So finally, nearly a week after the fact, we give you day 2 of Rock City Fest, as experienced by Whalebomb and myself. Here’s what happened: On Monday I saw Al Gore endorse Barack Obama at Joe Louis Arena. Pretty cool. Tuesday, I was lazy. Sorry. So this post..."

"I’ve read that more books have been written about Jesus and Abe Lincoln than about any other figures in history. In music history, you might guess that the Beatles top the list. In fact, however, according to Jonathan Gould, author of Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America,..."