One of my favorite books that I’ve read this year, is Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell. (You can check out my review at Popdose right here.) Until and unless Watterson decides to tell the story himself, this book is the most […]
Category: Books
Book Review: The Light in Darkness by Lawrence Kirsch
When I unwrapped the Live: 1975/85 box set, which I received as a Christmas gift from my parents in 1986, I don’t think I truly had a complete idea of exactly how much of an impact Bruce Springsteen would have on my life. As I put in the first cassette, and began thumbing through the […]
Contest: Win a copy of Big Man – the new book by Clarence Clemons!
Well, the Springsteen tour is finally over. Is anybody else already feeling a little bit of withdrawal like I am? What are we going to do with all of our new found free time? While we wait to find out what Bruce and the guys are going to be up to, one option is to […]
Inside the new Bruce Springsteen Rock Hall exhibit + Joe Vitale comes to the Rock Hall
Hey Bruce fans, dig this! Thomas Mulready from CoolCleveland.Com caught up with Jim Henke, Vice President of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to discuss the new Bruce Springsteen exhibit From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen Check out Mulready’s video interview […]
When We Get to Surf City
My friend Pat sent me a Twitter message, “Dude, I can’t believe you didn’t respond to my Fountains of Wayne reference on Twitter.” “I was READING A BOOK,” I replied. “In no way believes that @addictedtovinyl was reading anything that was not online” was the Twitter reply from Pat. Strange but true. You’ll recall a […]
More Twitter-related fun – Finding out why everything sucks
Who enjoys networking on Twitter? This guy. New and interesting people continue to find their way on to my radar via Twitter. Like recent Yale graduate Hannah Friedman, who is writing her first book Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool, a “teenage memoir” that will land […]
How to use an Amazon Gift Certificate: My Story
As a geek, there are two things I love these days. Two things of many things I love, I guess. One is Itunes gift cards. Another one is Amazon gift certificates. I had a $25 gift certificate for Amazon that I’ve been sitting on for a couple of months (which is unprecedented for me,) that […]
That’s some real conversation for your ass….
Nope this isn’t Ben Folds, Snoop, or even Dre related, but this is instead a post for my fellow music geeks. Take a couple of Chicago’s well known music critics who happen to work for competing newspapers, and give them a radio show to discuss, argue, and dissect music. The result is a weekly radio […]
Cleveland radio buffs, Devo, and Slayer fans, check this out!
Hey Cleveland! What are you doing Saturday morning/afternoon? I just read about a cool event via John Gorman’s blog: The Rock and Roll Carnival, sponsored by 91.3 The Summit is happening tomorrow (Saturday) at Borders in Fairlawn from 11am-5pm. Gorman will be there to talk about and sign copies of his book The Buzzard. Gorman […]
What I’m Reading: Off The Rails: A Tribute to Randy Rhoads
This week, I got a copy of the “collector’s edition” of Rudy Sarzo’s (Dio, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Yngwie Malmsteen) book Off The Rails – Aboard The Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz. The book is billed as “a tribute to Randy Rhoads” and indeed, that is exactly what it is. So often, […]