Bestest Songs Involving Photography Ev-ar Because Songs About Cars Suck Scott (aka  smwance ) recently groused that I hate Def Leppard in response to my article about the most overrated bands ever. Wait, I says, I really enjoy the song Photograph. But I also enjoy Ringo Starr’s Photograph. And Kodachrome. This begs the most important question we […]

Standing Up For The Big GuyHow Goliath Might Not Always Be The Bad Guy Wanna hear something crazy?  Microsoft makes some of the best software and deserves to be recognized for it.  I’ve never met or heard of anyone that shares that opinion because there is no company more hated than Microsoft.  While people complain about […]

The Most Overrated Bands There are bands whose accolades, both critical and cultural, far exceed that which they deserve. Most of these bands are fairly decent, and a few have produced some genuinely great music. But do they really deserve to be considered among the greatest artists ever? Read on and decide for yourself. Aerosmith […]

Everyone Else Is More Right Than I Am The response that Charlie MC posted yesterday about my entry regarding 24 and Boston Legal got my a-thinkin’.  She pointed out that one shouldn’t necessarily believe what is written in newspapers much less what is on a fictional television show–though she admitted that maybe TV shows get […]

Is 24 Harmful? What About Boston Legal? (Note: I am going to include the subject line in these posts so that it appears on my syndicated website blog.) My brilliant friend Mike Hollinger, who is a devil with the ladies, recently sent me an article from the New Yorker that was ostensibly about the Fox show […]

It’s no surprise that children can be cruel. To an extent, they are just learning how to communicate with the world and part of that experimentation is to find out what being mean or cruel is all about. That’s fine, I guess. But what a surprise that linguists are cruel. As if to please themselves, […]

For years I avoided using MIDI in the studio because it seemed more hassle than its worth. I figured that if something sounded natural enough being played live, then that’s good enough for me. Factoring in latency, general confusion regarding getting patches set to the right channels, hundreds of controller values, etc., it seemed the […]

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