I could once veer effortlessly from reggae to country to punk to old Rogers & Hammerstein to RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN (which was especia...

My original intention was to put the lady-stuff here on International Women's Day ... and I guess you see how that turned out. Hey, be...

Introduction to The History Project A couple of months ago, I posted an assortment of old leaflets, posters, propaganda, photos and othe...

Blast from the past: Counter-demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in New York in 1980, were given this handy-dandy "non-delegat...

Man Smart, Woman Smarter - Grateful Dead (Live 1985) Music starts at about 1:25.

Mary Huff, calling up the ghost of my mother (right down to the hair and the bass), sings "Nitty Gritty"-- yeah! Nitty Gritty ...

I was considering writing an obituary for astronaut Sally Ride , when the war over the facts of her personal life broke out. Was she ...

In this post only nine days ago , I briefly mentioned the Rolling Stones concert in San Francisco. One thing I remember from that show is a...

Pop Song 89 - R.E.M. (caution: topless ladies)

... from movies you've never seen. Unfortunately, I didn't find certain ones I was looking for. However, finding some of these was...

Stray Cat Strut - The Stray Cats As my late mother, the musician, would say (and did, the first time she ever heard this song), DO YOU...

It is my official AA anniversary, folks! Today marks my 30th year without alcohol. (gasp) I can hardly believe it myself. At left: an i...

I am currently watching Dennis Hopper playing a neo-nazi on an old Twilight Zone episode. Very strange. I heard this hypnotic old son...

I was 24 years old when I walked into my first AA meeting. Too young? Certainly, I already looked like I belonged there, swathed in discar...

Is love like Oxygen or Anthrax? I suppose that depends on what day it is. Warning: This isn't the top-40 version, but the album-versi...

Time for tuneage! (Or is it spelled tunage?) Here are my earworms for the past few weeks; I've been delinquent in not sharing! A varie...

As a veteran of the Watergate era, which I obsessively studied as a young pup, I am so deeply cynical and skeptical of our government, that ...

It really is! ~*~ Just Like Heaven - The Cure

It's Saturday and time for my weekly earworm roundup. Yes, earworms all through the election and beyond. ~*~ Here is a 70s song I...

At left: Sid isn't gonna like what Lynette says next. One of the greatest movie-bitches of all time has passed . She was my age. Lisa...