Have we all forgotten how to live? Did we ever know in the first place? While being full-on immersed in the book publishing stuff, I’ve been having difficulty focusing on reading books. Instead, I’m taking the iPad to bed every night and reading articles I’ve saved through the day. Which is probably why I’ve had …
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My Only Comfort is the Night Gone Black
Posted on April 19, 2013
Garbage, “Only Happy When it Rains,” 1996 Last Tuesday night I saw one of my favorite bands of my 20s, Garbage. I’m generally skeptical of seeing bands past their heyday unless I’ve kept up with their music. I haven’t done that with Garbage. Their 2005 album “Bleed Like Me” was a bit off …
Why Should it Matter to Us if They Don’t Approve?
Posted on March 15, 2013
(Every Friday, look for “Seen Your Video.” I’ll toss out a song that meant enough to me way back when to remain lodged in my head today and pick it apart. It’ll be flashbacky fun.) Tracy Ullman “They Don’t Know,” 1983 Before “The Tracey Ullman Show” that birthed “The Simpsons,” Brit Tracey Ullman first …
Cheap Cologne and that Damn Song, Too
Posted on March 8, 2013
(Every Friday, look for “Seen Your Video.” I’ll toss out a song that meant enough to me way back when to remain lodged in my head today and pick it apart. It’ll be flashbacky fun.) The Flirts - Jukebox (Don’t Put Another Dime), 1982 Get it out of the way: cheesy graphics, horrible video effects, lip-synching that …
Where the Mom Left Off
Posted on March 8, 2013
I had a blog. I had a blog that led to the writing career I started dreaming about when I was nine years old. You might have read that blog, Poppymom.com. It was around for a long time – about a month shy of eight years. It started when my daughter CJ was three months …
