An Optimistic 2020 Review

If you were thinking there couldn’t be a worse year than 2020, think again. There were some really amazing things that happened in the midst of all the coughing and the holding in of coughs and the political freak-outs and the extrovert freak-outs and even the regular everyday mentally-challenged freak-outs. No matter what country you …

Test of Thumbs

There is a test to see how many words a person can type while using only their thumbs. (The world record is 101 words per minute.) Two. Two words per minute. That’s how many I can type. About as fast as carving words in a stone slab in the catacombs. Does hyperbole grace every sentence …

10(0) Greatest Guitarists

In honor and in loving memory of Rolling Stone’s amazing long-forgotten list of the 100 best gitardudes ever, I decided to make my own. Here, for your listening pleasure, is the ultimate, ultimate you know what: Herbert Butros Khaury: absolute number one of number ones. This TINY guy packed a real wallop with his blazing …

Guitar Superheroes

Inspired by the silly, unquantified list recently created by Rolling Stone, which they dared call a list of the greatest guitarists, I went ahead and made my own. (By the way, if you check out their list, make sure you read the comments. There’s a territorial dog in there barking at everyone, “Bro, it’s not …

Alien Lightning Form

The best evidence of extra-terrestrial life being peaceful is the long history we have of visitations. Admittedly, many sightings and encounters are most likely drug-induced or just plain faked. Some are more difficult to disbelieve. A personal least-favorite chestnut of so-called alien sightings is when someone says they “saw a light”. Wow! Right? It must …