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PHENOMENONS SHOULD BE investigated regardless of one’s partisan view(if any) going in. The sensation may be about more than peer pressure, of not having a specific opinion or feeling “left out” of a discussion.…
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BOB DYLAN HAS A HABIT OF not immediately releasing songs. Another Minnesota legend had a habit of not releasing entire albums upon their completion. For reasons known only to the Sphinx from Hibbing, some of…
IF ANTHONY BOURDAIN(1956-2018) HAD not existed Hollywood(and/or Madison Avenue) would have had to invent him. Perhaps some bright, bright mind with a prescient outlook about the future of American attitudes and consumerism would sit at…
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1.THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK(2021) official trailer #2 The second and presumably final trailer before the October 1st official release ups the ante from the excellent first effort. It’s even more suspenseful, and a rewarding…
Continue Reading “10 THOUGHTS FOR A TUESDAY…” 9/28/21 EDITION
THERE ARE STORIES THAT DO not bear repeating—at least in “mixed” company. Among potentially non-friendly ears. Some pro-wrestlers are learning this the hard way after the resumption of season three of Dark Side of…
KANYE WEST(FEATURING ANDRE 3000) “LIFE OF THE PARTY” WELL, AT LEAST DRAKE’S tireless pettiness was finally of some use. His latest attempt to humiliate his bitter rival Kanye West may have spectacularly backfired—not in the…
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ABBA, “I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU” I’m probably more interested in the backstory of why a group reunites after 40 years(!) than I am in their first comeback single, video and album. And…
RIP CHARLIE WATTS(1941-2021) CHARLIE WATTS’S DEATH HIT harder than a John Bonham whack on “Rock and Roll.” Prior news did not indicate any severity to the press releases of the drummer recuperating in a London…
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RIP CHARLIE WATTS(1941-2021) 1.THE RETURN OF CM PUNK One of the more poorly kept secrets from the “dirt sheets” to the Internet. Pro wrestler and perennial obsession of social media fanboys would…
Continue Reading 10 THOUGHTS FOR A TUESDAY…AUGUST 24, 2021ST EDITION
1.LIONEL MESSI’S DEPARTURE FROM FC BARCELONA The news that international football great Lionel Messi, the only professional club he had ever played for (Barcelona) and the soccer federation it belongs to (La Liga) could not…
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