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Comedian Jim Norton tackles the twisted state of the 21st century, including how modern technology affects everything from free speech to hooking up. People typically invoke Lenny Bruce as a litmus test in these matters but I think the real test is Derek and Clive which, on recent form, I believe would be subject to…
Commemorating the birth of Zappa and here. censorshipFrank Zappafree speech
A newly-analyzed photo purportedly shows Robert Johnson, the mysterious blues legend whose meager recordings became a groundwork for American popular music. Here’s the story. bluesMississippi Deltamusicrobert johnson
Here are two musically classy Christmas albums that are fun, tongue-in-cheek, tender and not your usual lazy schlock. See The Independent and OffBeat. debbie davismatt perrinenick lowe
Despite recent rumblings in the chocolate world here is a fantastic pairing. All that is needed to make an outrageously quailic threesome is a Cohiba Behike 52. Dram>Choc>Dram>Puff — repeat. The vulgarity and noise of the world guaranteed to be silenced. Behikedick taylor chocolategastronomylagavulin 16qualiasingle malt
Doff of the hat to Cory MacLauchlin for reminding me of another great New Orleanian’s birth. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
A black, gay, one-eyed junkie genius born on this day. Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James BookerJames Bookernew orleanspianoScott Billington
I want to bring your attention to this Kickstarter project. Watch the 6 minute project pitch and donate what you can to this important work and check out the donor incentives. As you will see this project is on the verge of fruition and will be published to commemorate the centenary of Percy’s birth. The project is…
Forty-five. It is strange how little one changes. The psychologists are all wrong about puberty. Puberty changes nothing. This morning I woke with exactly the same cosmic sexual-religious longing I woke with when I was ten years old. Nothing changes but accidentals: your toes rotate, showing more skin. Every molecule in your body has been replaced…
