Oh dear god no. My husband has a really unnatural love of this swill. My refrigerator is about to be cursed. Again. 

This rule also applies to anyone who complains about an office holiday party. (yes, been there, done that...never, ever again)

I couldn’t agree more. As one of 3 vegetarians in a office full of omnivores, its frustrating when the go to place is say, a hamburger joint, with no vegetarian options or the person in charge forgets to get a veggie or plain cheese pizza from the local pizzeria.

Get either a good quality seitan you can cube or buy one of the mock chicken products like Gardein’s. Make the recipe the same as the real chicken, but sub out a vegetarian broth, such as Imagine Foods Organic No-Chicken Broth. If you use straight vegetable based broth, add a little pinch of poultry seasoning when you…

I got you beat. Frank Valli was singing “Big girls don’t cry..” the year I entered this planet.

Thank you for the tip of the hat to “Down in the Subway”. I have spent too many hours trying to convince many band members this song needs to be covered in a blues set. (Soft Cell’s version is pretty damn good as well..)

For years I have gone to conferences in Southern Cal and driven past that sign on the freeway. Now I am going to have to stop next time and try that soup!

My German grandmother and my mom made a version of this—it seems to have been popular in Northern German cuisine. I remember reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula when Jonathan Harker has “Paprika Hendl” and knowing exactly what he was eating. (My forebears made it really spicy as well).

I love the Clash, but parts of Sandinista! are the aural version of the “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..” filler text. I had a college friend once do a mix tape bringing that down to 1 vinyl record length and it was much much better. Triple albums and many time double albums are too long for their own good.

I was in a situation in a band where one of the male members continually treated me like shit the last few months of the band. Not one of the guys ever called him on his behavior. After I quit, one of the guys actually admitted he knew the behavior was out of line, but didn’t call him on it. I told him it made him as…

As a former Lutheran I can attest we have saints. We just don’t think they do much more than look good in Church names i.e. St. Paul, St. Stephen’s... I do think however, Bono has gone beyond the point where he feels his sanctity is a matter of debate.

I was an early adopter of “you can never have too many vinyl records”. From the age of about 7, alot of my weekly allowance went to the record store, an obsession that led to a few skipped meals in grad school to purchase vinyl at the Tower Records or Bleeker Bob’s in NYC. I still have most of those records (some…

Bono just started believing he was a saint. I remember a satire article I think in Spin magazine around 1986 or so where they declared that it was the year that Bono healed the sick and cured world hunger and other such miracles. So it’s been an issue with him for a while.

Flip side to this. I was 8 months pregnant with my first. My husband, our friend and I went to a local pub for a drink and sat at the bar. The guys ordered beer and I ordered a non-alcoholic “near beer”. To all concerned in the crowded Saturday pub, I was drinking beer and getting major stink eye from everyone. I…

This recipe sounds intriguing, esp when you start considering raviolis other than cheese say—squash filled or lobster. But I wouldn’t call it lazy per se, because if one is a first time cook, making a decent bechamel sauce can a challenge and a bit more than I would want to take on after working a 9 - 10 hour day at…

As much as I like the Smiths’ music; let’s be honest here, Moz has made himself an easy target for satire and ridicule from day one. So much so that he should just paint a bullseye on his back and be done with it. Or hang with Kayne and they both can act out ridiculously.

“Andy Warhol” was what came to mind when I saw the title of this article. I concur, much better entry.

A comment on the “laughing on stage” moments. Sometimes, its an inside joke that requires no speaking that can set band members off. I was in a cover band where one of the singers insisted on us playing Neil Young’s “Down by the River”. For a bar band, this is not a tune that gets butts off the bar stools and yes, I…

With a screwed up left foot tendon for the past 10 years, my routine at GA shows in medium sized halls is to find the place closest to the stage but against a supporting wall. There is a spot in the Fillmore in SF that I swear they should just dedicate to my ass leaning against it for so many shows.

I took my then mid-teen son to a Social Distortion concert where they did the “Ring of Fire” cover. He said he thought that he’d never see a bunch of guys slam dancing in a pit to a Johnny Cash song, but there it was!