It’s The Hits Of August-ish 1955!
It starts with a flopped B-side, detours through a record store riot, and ends somewhere near a teenage beautician outrunning a Cadillac in the rain.
Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan rewinds the Summer of ’55 with side-eyed reverence, jukebox theology, and exactly the right amount of references to Alan Freed.
Why Does A Scene About A Driver’s License Test Make Me Laugh?
A standard driving test question, a moment of befuddled confusion, and a deeply fried former hippie.
It shouldn’t work—but here’s how Taxi and Christopher Lloyd made comedy history, one…word…at…a…time…
Lux, Ivy, And The Cramps
There are your typical band bios, and then there’s this.
Contributing Author and Music Historian Bill Bois delivers a masterful, loving tribute to The Cramps: equal parts subcultural scholarship, musical nerdery, and heartstring pluck. You’ll laugh, nod, and probably Google “Psychobilly” halfway through.
OutKast with a mandolin or Iron Maiden with a fiddle? Why not?
Contributing Author Rollerboogie uncovers a foot-stomping universe of bluegrass covers that brilliantly reimagine the familiar – and will leave even the purists on both sides of the covers grinning.
Status Quo
There’s no law that says you have to evolve musically, and Status Quo made a career out of proving it.
Contributing Author JJ Live From Leeds brings his sharp wit and encyclopedic recall to a tale of psychedelic flukes, cardboard bassists, and a three-chord formula that refused to quit.
A meditation on language, loss, and the growing tension between human truth and artificial convenience.
Contributing Author Chuck Small delivers a subtle, searing reminder: our voice is a soulprint—and no algorithm should ever hold the pen.
Mike Flanagan’s THE LIFE OF CHUCK
From Contributing Author and resident film maven cappiethedog, comes a transcendent, twisty homage to King, Kubrick, and cosmic accounting that says, “Do the math – and find the meaning.”
It’s The Hits Of July-ish 1925!
From the cutest story ever to come out of the Georgia legislature, to a sultry dance craze that rattled the moralists, this piece has it all: politics, pianos, and not a small amount of pelvic motion.
Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan masterfully unpacks the untamed energy of 1925 with humor, detail, and the quiet resignation of someone who’s read all 2,700 pages of Ben Bernie’s joke file.
Why Does a Slice of Pizza Thrown During A Baseball Game Make Me Laugh?
Is an airborne slice of pepperoni at Fenway better entertainment than anything happening on the actual baseball field? Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy’s legendary pizza-throwing broadcast breakdown at Fenway Park created one of baseball’s funniest announcer moments ever.
The Surprising Origin of the Word “Cocktail”
Contributing Author Bill Bois uncorks a fizzy pour of facts and fables in this delightfully twisted tale of where the word “cocktail” might have come from.
Whether you sip slowly or shoot it back, you’re in for a ride; historical speculation has never gone down so smoothly.
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