"Oh, it's Presidents Day. Some people have the day off."

My outburst, on glancing at my Twitter feed this morning. Excuse me for not sufficiently valuing the generic President of the United States,...

"I was thinking about Baader-Meinhof. Patty Hearst. Tompkins Square. This a song about living in Alphabet City."

So said David Byrne, explaining his song "Life During Wartime." I'm thinking about that song today because I'm reading Gr...

"32 Pictures You Should Have Seen Before The World Was Supposed To End."

I'm for #30. Or 29. Oh, I don't know. Animals are cool, except when they're not .

"You may ask yourself: How much oil is in there anyway?"

Letting the days go by... crude oil flowing in the Gulf... (Via Paddy O .)

The words mean something, "but not if you try to figure them out."

Says David Byrne in this 1983 Letterman appearance, that's talked about in this really long NYT article calling Byrne "Indie Rock...

About killing that mockingbird.

Jeremy Freese is taking a poll about whether Truman Capote wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird." And I promise you I wrote that sentence...

100 top albums of the 1980s.

Speaking of Prince, why was "1999" only #16 on Rolling Stones list of 100 top albums of the 1980s ? Here's the top 20 (go to t...