Posts by Alby

Turns out a lot of people who either voted for Trump or skipped voting altogether are surprised that he's doing all the things he said he would do, including things…

This one's pretty self-explanatory. It should hold true for, oh, the next 1,430 days or so. Not that I'm counting or anything. The Damned were overshadowed by their more obnoxiously…

Word comes that the Musk administration has given all personnel in the Central Intelligence Agency his "buy-out" offer. It seems to me that pissing off thousands of spies might be…

Even without Demolition Donny's pointless tariffs, prices aren't going down anytime soon, by which I mean "ever." Song of the Day is well-equipped for what's coming, because as long as…

As El Somnambulo noted, last night's Grammy Awards handed out trophies to both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – the Beatles for "Now and Then," a John Lennon demo…

As my late colleague Allan Loudell used to say, "It's Groundhog Day all over again." I'll watch the 1993 cult classic again tonight as a tonic against our vile, egotistic…

Some people – old ones – will remember Marianne Faithfull as Mick Jagger's girlfriend from London's Swinging '60s. She was 17 and just starting out as a folk singer when…

Summer festival lineups are being announced, and as usual the biggest news is about a band reunion. Wanna feel old? The band is Rilo Kiley. Formed by erstwhile child actors…

I don't think this song, released last fall, made it onto any of El Somnambulo's monthly new music roundups, but it's gotten lots of airplay on WXPN. Beware – it…

It's easier to wreck things than build them. It requires very little brain – three-year-olds are good at it, which lines right up with Trump being good at it. When…

There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals…

Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…

Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…