Holy Lou Piniella, Batman!

Dear Mets front office:

The helmets look good, but overall, the unis look like nothing more than a tweak to the good ol’ days of Bruce Coslet and (gulp) Rich Kotite. The unis Parcells couldn’t wait to get rid of when he took over. For a franchise that gives every appearance of wanting to move forward, I really do not think the Jets want to…

Yeah, the rules will be changed, etc. (and Payton is on the Competition Committee), but some consolation, right? And I’m glad someone brought up the mugging of Ginn at the start of the fourth. But on the subject of leading with the head, Cory Littleton got away with two – the one that knocked Josh Hill out of the game…

Well, here he was as a kid. 1959. With hair! Much love to Norton Records.

How the living hell is Digital First Media not on this list? They’ve pillaged dozens of small-to-medium-sized papers across the country (disclosure: I was one of the discards three years ago), decimated the Pulitzer-winning staff at The Denver Post, killed the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times (and replaced both…

Holy George Foreman, Batman!

Oh yeah – I was on a hub that paginated 10 dailies and several weeklies.

The daily we worked out of had good, vigilant editors and still had some veteran writers, but since Alden did away with copy editors, we were the de facto copy editors for all the papers. It was like being sent to defuse grammatical minefields…

The Denver Post is one of the papers being pillaged by Randall Smith, aka Alden Global Capital, owner of “Digital First” Media. (Disclosure: My department at one of their papers was discarded a few years ago; the publisher at the time had the balls to tell us, “You guys make too much money.” We were making $25K-$40K a…

Sorry ... just finished laughing at this.

I was just getting ready to record my radio show this afternoon for Thursday when the news first broke about his heart attack, before the did-he/didn’t he clusterfuck. Anyway, it’s an alternate anthem to the show. Please seek out your local left-of-dial or online radio show; there are a lot of last DJs out there.…

Damn, Samer! It’s been 10 months and I still get a little choked up when I see or hear Miss Jones. (Got to see her in New Haven six months before she died; the gutsiest performance I’ll ever see.)

In that spirit, I see your Sharon and call with a Charles:

The short list of greatest albums I’ve ever heard, that is.

Grant was 2 1/2 months older than me. I don’t feel 56, and I don’t feel that the Huskers’ music is 30 years old, give and take a few. And likewise, their music was never “the music of my young adulthood.” It’s still the music of my present in a way a lot of punk from then isn’t; the Huskers are still a presence on my…

From Canonsburg, PA, the hometown of Perry Como and Bobby Vinton.

You could’ve saved yourself a lot of work if you just ran any photo of Little Danny wearing a tie. Then again, he can’t even do doucheface that well anymore – Drumpf and Shkreli are smirk and smirk coming down the stretch. I mean, Danny still does doucheface – they might waive the five-year requirement for the Douche…

After an unbelievably, clusterfucky, savage day on the sociopolitical front, these are the only Savages I wanna hear! Did you say dust?

I was Gandalf AND Magneto AND, for two minutes, a Fleshtone.

Because some people need a reminder of what Woody Guthrie said. And because I miss the hell out of Miss Jones.

Took myself to see “Baby Driver” last night out of boredom. One of the best car-chase/heist movies ever made, paired with the best soundtrack I’ve ever heard. (Not to mention Edgar Wright directing.) Maybe three other films’ soundtracks were as memorable to me as the movies themselves: “Animal House,” “The Blues…