The Gimp Parade

Two years ago this week I got caught up in a legal dispute that briefly threatened my life. Obviously, I'm still alive, but a version of what happened to me could happen to anyone who consumes health care in America, so I figure people should know a...

The times they are a-changin', just a little, I think. The music news site TwentyFourBit reports:
"Taking the stage in a wheelchair after your hip breaks for the second time is pretty punk rock, we think."
Image description: A black-and-white photo of Smith giving a grimacing smile or snarl to the camera. He's 52 now (though he looks older) and missing a couple teeth....

There are those people online that you never get to meet but suspect could be your very best friend if they only lived closer. I tend to work them into daily offline conversations sometimes, with references that don't sound as strange as they used to...

"I've always been a leader of awkward people," Bradford Cox says.
Cox, lead singer (and also guitarist, keyboardist and player of various other stuff) of Atlanta band Deerhunter and solo-project Atlas Sound, is a musician whose personal appearance, live stageshow presentation, music media critiques and band song lyrics...