Your name gives you away. My now ex band used to do lots of Dave covers, it's well written music no matter how you look at it.

Counterpoint to myself I guess: A Confederacy of Dunces.

Beverly D'Angelo wrote all Lurleen's songs apparently. So she could've!

I believe there was a Simpsons Take the Bowl concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Not sure what was performed there though

I'd enjoy a Dick Dale fronted all star surf rock band burning through the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, with guest vocalists giving their renderings of Jungle Boogie, Son of a Preacher Man, You Never Can Tell, and Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon.

No one should ever deign to finish the unpublished work of an artist after they die, replicating their tone is impossible. Even finished unpublished works are a dicey affair, because now you're talking about a question of whether that artist wanted that piece to represent them.

No plans to, trust me. What little I've seen of him made it clear i'd have no interest in spending half an hour a day with him. Knowing that Chris Rock could have had that job just makes it sting worse.

I love PTA's stories about his dad's crazy drunken antics. I wish Tim Conway would tell a few while we still got him. The "mummy" one PTA told on WTF still cracks me up.

Frankly as someone who voted for Johnson last time, the obsession with commingling prominent Libertarians with Republicans is part of what sours independent minded people like me from fully committing to the party. All those Guns God & Government types wanna front like they're small-gov on April 15th but if you put a…

I'm also fairly certain you're confusing Ben Harper the musician with Ben Harper, son of former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.

Ummm….you're definitely wrong about several of those. Bill Hicks? Billie Joe Armstrong? Krist is a former Democrat who's still mainly left wing….

Huebel is an Arnett-level mugger. It's probably just a question of taste but my skin crawls at all these grown men who make a living saying silly nonsense and flash these childish "ain't I a stinker?" looks at camera all the time.

PETA also has sent more animals to be euthanized than any other organization.

For years I swore he said "I can be your hero baby / I can piss against the wind" and its far too late to change that in my mind now.

A casual "tread lightly" wouldn't be out of order.

It's really already a few years shy of relevant.

Walk Harding

Has Newman ever been on WTF? I gotta imagine that'd be a great interview

Awesome article. One of those weird coincidences where I've been working on Newman influenced music and enjoying a lot of Southern gothic fiction and then this pops up. It's a shame if you mention Newman to the majority of people these days they're gonna come back at you with some Toy Story. Such a unique and engaging…

Interesting concept despite its fundamental Hellerness. Not hard to see where Bowie's outsider appeal was a gateway to the early glammier days.