Any Moses puns and I'll have to relax with a cubit cigar.

Listening to them (also on cassette) and then seeing Devo live at Raincross Square in Riverside around '78 made me realize that there was more to life than mullets, pendletons and OP shirts, and that my ambitions might be a bit higher than being produce manager at Alpha Beta (a job I really tried to get but could not,…

I think he just changed his name to…

Downvoted for the no-thong rule.

I was backstage with them about 25 years ago, and this girl came up to the bass player and said "oh I like you guys so much!" He looked at her and said "oh yeah? What do I play"? She sat there kind of stunned. "oh yeah you really like us". I doubt if Hootie ever did that.

The way I look at this is, Chuck Berry wrote arguably (and I would make that argument) the best lyrics in all of rock music, and his biggest-selling song was "my ding-a-ling". In short, we're doomed.

I know a successful doctor who went to Allen Temple in Oakland who passed a few years ago. He had a clinic in Africa he visited every year, paid for stained glass windows, and also was well-known to have a male partner. Our choir sang at his funeral and his partner was even mentioned a few times, and there was no…

Rob Schenider as the store owner, and Rob Schneider as his dimwitted barista brother. "You likea da cream, eh?" Cue wacky ska music.

The hospital on Guerrero Street is a nice touch.

A manager told me 20 years ago, business is all about relationships. But you could pretty much substitute "business" with "whatever else you are doing" and you'd be right. Just to take one example, reporting is all about building relationships with sources. This takes time, and patience, and a great amount of work.

I've only watched Craig Ferguson a couple of times on the advice of friends, and every time I do, my friends say "well usually the show is a lot funnier". I almost place him in the "Wagner's music is better than it sounds" category. Can somebody explain him to me please?

Well as you alluded to, doing a show, day in and day out, not all the jokes will be top shelf. It's just a ton of work to put on a talk show five days a week. This article actually explained it pretty well - he sold the jokes, as shopworn as they were sometimes.

Two words: Merrill Markoe.
Two more words: Brother Theodore. Man I miss that guy.

I always liked the well-titled "Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song)". Sad songs is all I know. With those somewhat teasing horns in the background.

I think their attitude might be more like doctors who see suicides and see such a waste of precious life (and, in this case, talent as well). I mourn his passing, and this might be too soon (is too soon?), but every addict I've ever known is selfish and self-absorbed. And, as good of an actor as he was, nobody stuck…

No you are right, I mean Burroughs is about the only one I can think of. Dr. John doesn't really talk about how great it was, just that it was a part of him, and was the biggest part of him for many years. His book will not make you want to try it, for sure.

William Burroughs would like a word. Dr. John has the best description of heroin addiction I've read in Under a Hoodoo Moon (out of print but worth tracking down). Despite times in prison and other bad things that happened, he doesn't seem to regret any of it. He also basically says that he created all his work in…

Indeed I did. I guess I should look in the dictionary more.

Boy Howdy did it. The only thing that Weide article convinced me of is that, if you look in the dictionary, his picture should be next to the term "syncophant". It didn't seem well-reasoned and he seemed to slam Farrow re: the Frank Sinatra thing, and then a few sentences later, he says "I'm not here to slam Mia",…

Liked for the term "edgier", whenever I see this word i know it's time to stop paying attention (I mean in real life things, not yours). Need to put "danger" somewhere in there too, like "bringing the danger back to comedy!".