News and Notes 
Online overkill – week of April 12
Good, bad and inspiring, these are some of the items that filled my RSS feed this week.
Preview and pre-order new Saxon Shore
Saxon Shore’s It Doesn’t Matter is now available for pre-order from the band’s Web site – $15 postage paid. If you’d like to preview it before you hand over your credit card number, you can do so at the band’s Myspace page. Here’s a description of the record from the Philadelphia-based band’s Web site: We’ve […]
Online overkill – week of April 6
Good, bad, unnerving and tragic, these are some of the topics that made frequent appearances in my RSS feed this week. The Palin family circus. File under: stories that should be left to the tabloids and Jerry Springer. Nick Adenhart. The Angels pitcher and three others were killed by a drunk driver in an accident shortly […]
Remembering Royal City
Royal City, a wonderful little Canadian band I had the pleasure of seeing play a couple times in Brooklyn many years ago, is coming back. Well, sort of. Asthmatic Kitty is releasing a self-titled compilation of unreleased material on June 23. Details are HERE.
We have a winner
Nothing like backing into a championship. In a field where no one picked North Carolina to win it all, kingmatthew76 won even in defeat last night as he finished on top of the annual Tangzine.com Bracket-Breaker Challenge. King Matthew, aka Matt Stone, finished with 577 points, but wasn’t exactly burning up the New York Times […]
It’s only one game, but…
How cool was it to see the Pirates put up a four-spot in the ninth to win and CC “$161 million” Sabathia get lit up by the Orioles on Opening Day yesterday? It might be the only day of a long 162-game season that the Pirates have more wins than the gold-plated to-hell-with-the-recession Yankees, but it’s […]
Online overkill – week of March 30
Good, bad, annoying or overhyped, these are the items that set my RSS reader on fire this week. John Calipari. Living in Kentucky, you’d think a different JC had shown up this week to replace the Messiah from two years ago who was tarred, feathered and run out of town by the most obnoxious college […]
Online overkill – week of March 23
Good, bad, annoying or shady, these were the items that made frequent appearances in my RSS reader this week. Obama’s Teleprompter. The right-wing teleprompter meme has been played up so much lately, the electronic note card machine has its own blog. The blog is kind of funny, even if making fun of a president for […]