by Charles Norman | Jan 7, 2019 | Features
We mark the progression of our lives by the holidays. The day you enter this world becomes an instant holiday – your birthday – which your friends and family are obligated to celebrate even if they don’t really like you. If you positively impact the...
by Charles Norman | Dec 21, 2018 | Song of the Day
Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mister Peabody… I attended an elementary school that was flanked on the east by military surplus tarpaper-sided shacks that had been hauled in decades before to house the flood of students lured into a godforsaken state college by...
by Charles Norman | Dec 15, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Warm Months” does not begin. The listener enters the room, slightly late as usual, the Green Line bus having been impeded by a thrice-dented gypsy cab. The song is already wafting through the speakers, a pair of plucked strings sketching alternating chords. Dog Mom...
by Charles Norman | Dec 7, 2018 | Song of the Day
The Great American Road Trip was conceived as a thing of barren majesty. Two fantastic-looking guys barreling down a completely empty highway in an enormous convertible, flanked on each side by an endless landscape. The color of the convertible is unknown since our...
by Charles Norman | Dec 6, 2018 | Song of the Day
Today in history marks 294 days since the inception of our Song of the Day feature. During that span, we made 162 posts, each featuring a song by an excellent, under-recognized musician. Our original intent was to compose a few well-written paragraphs each day about a...
