by Charles Norman | May 3, 2014 | Features
I am told that the globe is warming. I am told that, by driving my car down to the Shell station to pick up a bag of beef jerky and a six-pack of Bud Light, I am sowing the seeds of our planet’s future destruction, an apocalypse to be preceded by the watery...
by Charles Norman | Apr 22, 2014 | Off the Wall
Let’s see if we (the cats and I) can write one of those breezy, gossipy, throw-everything-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks posts that the other bloggers can regurgitate so effortlessly… Cory Bishop has released a new single, “You Can’t Take Me.” I don’t know...
by Charles Norman | Apr 15, 2014 | Off the Wall
Original limericks by Reverb Raccoon There was a deer from Australia Who developed a taste for azaleas But he couldn’t find none From Perth to Melbourne So he caught the next plane for Georgia Upon seeing the azaleas in bloom The deer immediately plotted their...
by Charles Norman | Apr 6, 2014 | Features
Josaleigh Pollett inscribes letters, never written or mailed but spoken aloud in a room without light, staring at an unseen wall, a glass half-empty of bourbon on the side table, messages to the departed, the estranged, the source of her ache. Strangers comprises...
by Charles Norman | Mar 20, 2014 | Features
Full disclosure: The first time I visited Feral Conservatives’ Bandcamp page, and saw that the “band” is a little girl with an electric mandolin and a badass-looking guy on drums, I thought “Oh god this is gonna suck.” I anticipated some sort of lo-fi noise rock that...