We're not really supposed to tell AA stories outside of AA, but about 25 years ago, I heard the best story from a guy who was proud of his haberdashery. He was talking about subscribing to GQ (I told you it was a long time ago) and dressing nice, but in his words, "it's hard to be GQ when you have piss in your pants…

I hadn't heard that, but it's possible. James Booker could imitate pretty much every pianist down there, in fact he might be the best New Orleans pianist of all. Dr John's book Under a Hoodoo Moon talks about tours in the South where Booker would pretend to be Huey Piano Smith and a few others. Dr John is a great…

Chalk one up for the Canucks!

Yes, New Orleans was a port town all the way. A lot of music down there, like Professor Longhair, had a Latin influence.

Except, they were doing it a lot better than Jerry Lee and Little Richard - they just cranked the crazy up to 11, which for rock n roll, is the right way to go.

So, guessing you feel a little differently about it?

What amazing music came out of J&M Studios. Makes me proud to be an American. It's just so, so good. American piano music is probably the best in the world - besides Fats and Dr. John in NOLA, we've had Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, and Oscar Peterson. And Art Tatum. Just an embarrassment of riches.

They had those speed hole things in the front fenders.

The Olds Diesel was a big reason. They took a gas engine and converted it to diesel, apparently without the basest of understanding of how a diesel works - it has massive compression, and just hammered the crankshafts. I think the engines lasted about 40,000 miles if they were lucky.

Also, people bought the same brand. My Uncle is in his '90s and has owned a Buick since he was 30. Even his small car was an Opel Kadett, which was sold at Buick dealerships. My dad was kind of an Olds guy, he had a '60s Delta 88 with fins that was rad, but the thing I remember about it is it has a speedometer that…

My favorite car song is "My Hooptie" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. "Put on the brakes - out come Skittles". I think I had this car.

The re…..ve…..n….an…………t

I love that album! By that point, Penn was: (listens for 30 seconds) "OK that's enough".

The song may be good in the context of the album, but it was inescapable in the '80s. It was like the Macarena or Mambo #9. There was no way to get away from it, and it was associated mostly with some skeevy dudebro ogling over his Ray-Bans. I'm with Margaret on this one, but I've known about her since the '80s too,…

Say no more!

The really weird thing about this song is Yello was part of the Ralph Records clique of the '80s, with Renaldo and the Loaf, Tuxedomoon, the Residents, and Snakefinger. These groups were not commercial groups. I'm sure that Margaret heard it a lot up here, it's kind of perfect she hates it. And she is so right - it's…

C'mon and wind him up.

Globalization, by its very name, affects everybody. It's happened, and will continue to happen, and people will continue to lose their blue collar jobs. The genie is not going back in the bottle, and people are scared and angry. Being from the Inland Empire of Southern California, I saw it happen at the Fontana Steel…

He was bringing poetry back to its roots, maaan!

"For might makes right / until they see the light / they've got to be protected / all their rights respected / 'til somebody we like can be elected"