In the Playa: the Green Apple Splatters’ “Somebody Save Us from the Heave”!

Several years ago, when Charles was contributing to alt.music.cheap-trick regularly, I’d read too, though I rarely posted. We had gone to Trickfest 3 together, and it was fun to read the group actually having met several of the participants. A recurring thread topic was “In the Playa,” in which people would share what they were … Read more

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

I’ve always enjoyed the song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” The skillful blending of electric and acoustic guitars pleases me, and I love the epic style in which Gordon Lightfoot delivers the lyrics. Even though he mentions the Great Lakes, a shipment of iron ore, and other quotidian details, he sounds as if he’s … Read more

Amy Fisher

No introduction needed, I assume. She and her husband made a sex tape, and he got pissed and sold it while she was re-canoodling with Buttafuoco, and now she’s made some deal with the distributor, and she and her husband have reconciled. Or something. When it comes to naked skanks, I’m not much of a … Read more

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