We Dis’ the 70s, Easy Target

Where. To. Start.

This compulsion has been driving me for years with building intensity. Maybe all the way back to ABBA and Alice Cooper I didn’t have much to work with. I’m just glad “Dancing Queen” didn’t stick and that I didn’t wind up with “Party Monster” based on my catastrophic debauchery. No, instead I stumbled through Kool & the Gang, O N J and E L O. I swear it was completely innocent and naive. There’s nothing pure and virtuous about how my family nurtured me in Queen and the Doobie Brothers. Well, I don’t hold my mom accountable for the Carpenters and Johnny Mathis. Continue reading

They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parked Domain

What a great day! See, I learned something from creative writing. Open the story with something that takes a lot more explanation. Some writers take the liberty of another thousand pages to fill out what they meant by their first few words. I have no doubt it will take at least that length to clear out the clutter in my mind to tell you about my obsession: Music. Today I’m finally putting impetus to my intentions and I’m settling on a suitable domain name, senseandsound.net. All alliterations aside, this was not my first choice. “senseofsound.net” made more sense to me, but the squatters win for now. Continue reading