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Postcard Collection: Greetings From Arizona, Part One
8 Comments Published October 2nd, 2007 in Obsessions, TreasureIt’s finally starting to cool off around these parts. Soon enough, I’ll able to once again take actual road trips to parts of the state I haven’t seen yet. But the internet still continues to offer an adequate substitute for real experience. I’ve recently found a few great sites that are new to me at [...]
Love Workshop - The Wonderful Russ Interview
10 Comments Published September 11th, 2007 in Obsessions, TreasureIn this exclusive interview, Phoenix broadcasting legend and real estate celebrity “Wonderful” Russ Shaw reminisces about “Love Workshop,” the comedy show he co-created in 1976 with Tod Carroll for the progressive rock station KDKB-FM. He also shares stories about the early days of free-form radio in Phoenix and the various local luminaries he met along [...]
Love Workshop - The Wayne Butane Collection
8 Comments Published August 28th, 2007 in Obsessions, TreasureMy “Love Workshop” collection finally reached critical mass last moth, thanks to fellow Phoenician and Verne & Craig enthusiast Wayne Butane. Wayne sent me a full five disks of shows, all lovingly digitized from his crumbling original cassettes. I managed to clean most of the hiss out of them, but they are far from master [...]
Postcard Collection: Greetings From Phoenix
4 Comments Published August 21st, 2007 in Obligations, Obsessions, Trash, TreasureI first discovered Michael Monti’s “100 South Mill Avenue” blog after he dropped some praise on my scans of an old menu from his family’s La Casa Vieja restaurant. “As a restaurateur and history buff,” He wrote, “I can assure you that these will be appreciated as a goldmine of nostalgia and useful information about [...]
The public spectacle of Elvis sleepwalking though his performances in the seventies is one of the more cliché metaphors of that decade. But the second half of 1974 is what many consider his absolute nadir. To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the death of The King Of Rock And Roll, we present a [...]
When my spouse and I found out Scottish legends the BMX Bandits were scheduled to play at the 2007 NYC Popfest, we quickly booked some decent lodging and grabbed a red eye to JKF. For their first visit to our shores in a decade, the band played a poorly-attended weeknight show in Brooklyn and [...]
At it’s core, GTD is simply a path to peace of mind, tarted up to look good on a corporate expense report.
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