Category: Features
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: Three Songs Involving Greg Jarrow
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to mulch a garden bed. Last Monday he announced a Master Plan to weed and mulch one bed...
Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby
This feature first appeared in 2014. And I am going to keep reprinting it until someone recognizes the genius of Wormbag. --- I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The...
Mance Lipscomb – Farmer and Songster
I worked so hard in my lifetime, look like I dreams about it now. And I wake up in the morning, thinking I got to go to the field.-- Mance Lipscomb, I Say Me for a Parable I. The CottonThe southern extremity of Brazos County, Texas is covered by a broad expanse of...
Guest Post by Matthew Barton: A Postcard from Quarantine
Back in March, in England, along with the rest of the country, I went into lockdown. No visits outside, no socialising, no face-to-face contact with friends -- a transformation of our daily life. It's now August, and I am releasing a project, Queen of England, made in...
Christopher James – Mount Kisco Moon, the Musical
Christopher James, a resident of Mount Kisco, New York, is a superhero. I'm not sure what powers he possesses, but I believe they include Songwriting, Playing the Ukulele, and The Ability to Stand in One Place. Someday, a musical entitled Mount Kisco Moon will be...
Through the Year Backwards with Bacon Hammer
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 lives of enough...
Feral Conservatives – Here’s To Almost
"Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." - The almost-last words of Union General John Sedgwick before getting shot in the head Everyone can use a little Almost. The bullet almost missed General Sedgwick (probably not, but you’d...
Mike Herz and Emily Barnes – Closer to Home
“Each one of the tunes is really special to us like all of you, so thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We hope we’ve made you as happy as the start of this journey has made us.” - Mike and Emily, Closer to Home Listening to the debut album from Closer to Home did...
Steven Lipsticks and his Magic Band: Why Isn’t This Guy Famous?
Eons ago, in the Cretaceous Era of my youth, I washed ashore against the rocky substrate of Spearfish, South Dakota. The town had little to recommend it, save a view of red sandstone hills and a bar called Bernie’s that served cheap 3.2 beer at happy hour....
Fluffy the Idiot Cat Reviews Naomi Pop
Hi. I’m Fluffy. The Food Guy that I live with writes this Blog. I’m not sure what a Blog is, but you read it on something called the Internet. The Food Guy does most of his reading on the toilet, so I guess the Internet is like a big toilet where people go to read...
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The Pink Stones – Shiny Bone
To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure, dry, sordid, infantile soul. All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven...
shidasp – when my eyes had set on you
Taken together, these studies suggest that at times depressed people are 'sadder but wiser' than nondepressed people. Nondepressed people succumb to cognitive illusions that enable them to see both themselves and their environment with a rosy glow. -- Lauren B. Alloy...
Calico – She’s Like a Weatherman
If a butchered hog’s melt faces toward the head, the worst part of winter will be the early part. If a butchered hog’s melt faces more to the back, the latter part of winter will be the worst. -- Helen Lane, 1964 The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we...
CountrySide – How Many Times and Need a Change
Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Jerry: If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would...
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