Not sure what VW did with their infotainment software during one of my (infrequent) dealer visits, but realized some time ago that I was thankfully no longer being assaulted with "Academy Fight Song" every time I switched to iTunes. Appreciate it, folks!

A man's got to know his limits?

Also: Spacehog has never not sucked.

Yeah, was figuring we were due for a Gen X "Big Chill."

Noticeably absent from the above: Mo Tucker.

"City of Angels" has the Hole cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman."

Hüsker Dü's "Something I Learned Today" hits it pretty well lately as the world is going through what it's going through. Simultaneously firebomb and a kind of futile determination.