Whew, for a second I thought you were talking about my ass. I sometimes have trouble telling it from a hole in the ground.

Erinn Hayes's turn as a baby determined to grow up to be a local news anchor is one of the all-time best Spontaneanation performances and I hope this means we get more of her on that podcast.

"Leads? Yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They've got four more detectives working on the case. They've got us working in shifts!"

It was a small stage, and the ATM was awkwardly nestled in a hallway just off to the side of it. If there was a line for the ATM you had to stand right at the edge of the stage, sort of uncomfortably close to the band. In hindsight the guy probably thought I was crowding him. Or maybe he was just fucked up on…

One time I went to use the ATM just off the stage at a Black Church Service show and the bass player shot me a weird grin and started repeatedly jabbing me in the chest with his guitar as he played. It was actually fairly painful but it was also one of the more rock 'n' roll things I've had happen to me at a concert…

Ah, thanks. I thought it was just a particularly ungoogleable program name.

I heard Hootie's "Let Her Cry" in a gas station yesterday and was shocked at how delighted I was to hear it.

I'll note that Bob Dylan also shares a songwriting credit with one Michael Bolton on the latter's "Steel Bars." I'm not sure if that reflects positively or negatively, nor on whom.

Not to mention the equally terrible opportunists who sort-of opposed him. Ted Cruz and the exclamation point guy will never be seen in the same light again.

Y'know, I remember kinda liking Blues Traveler when I first saw them on Letterman as a kid. I think the appeal was largely the novelty of a band fronted by a harmonica-playing fat guy in a dorky hat that was playing something other than "Sweet Home Chicago" style bar blues. Fortunately the curiosity wore off before I…

You can't get a much better endorsement as an artist than "Lou Reed wrote a song about how much he dug one of my plays." https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Animals will bare their fangs, the Pope will join a gang, we'll all get new shoes when Ringo buys a rifle.

If you take out all the consonants it's "EIEIEU," which has been the sound of my inner monologue since November.

Thanks for the tips, all. I could probably have sussed this out on my own but I appreciate the endorsements, as I don't trust myself to pick out a solution that won't just erase a couple of hundred-thousand songs.

Yeah, I've been accumulating music on the iPod for years and most of it hasn't carried over on my iTunes as I've gone through multiple computers. It's probably poor planning on my part but it's also stuff I never knew I'd have to plan for.

Since we're on the topic, anyone have a good tutorial for transferring songs from my iPod classic to an external drive? I know it's doable but Apple intentionally didn't make it easy and I'm terrified of accidentally erasing my library.

Huh, just noticing that the first stop is at the Joy in New Orleans. I was an assistant manager at that place in its waning days as a movie theater. It was maybe the most tumultuous several months of employment I ever had but I can't say it was anything less than memorable. My boss was a former member of Gwar, for one…

I've never understood the bad rap Wings gets. I guess it was probably different if you lived through The Beatles and then watched the members splinter in such distinct directions, but coming at it after the fact, it sounds like pretty great '70s pop. Wings Over America was pretty near my favorite album when I was 13…

I took my kid to see McCartney last year because Bowie and Prince had just died and when that happens you take your kid to see whatever Beatle you have access to. (Also, tickets were surprisingly cheap.) It was a school night so we didn't catch the whole thing and my kid fell asleep half an hour in, but he'll always…

I love the doc, but that's my biggest beef with it too. The stunt where the filmmakers reunite Daniel and Laurie after a show seems downright reckless.