Just a random rant.

Two men who have assigned themselves gatekeeper status. Both have made considerable contributions to their genres, but there's no way in hell I'm going to listen to ANYONE tell me what is or is not "real". Jazz afficianados are second only to hip=hop purists in terms of what entails realness and fealty to the art. What is real? ( Read more... )

I stayed quiet. But I couldn't take shots before, and I damned sure am not taking them now ( Read more... )

There's a larger issue at play here, but this is a microcosm of larger issues ( Read more... )

THis may be a series, I can see that coming.

-$2 for wash. $2 for dry. Which is bad enough. But now, we're asked to exchange those meaningless rolls of quarters for TOKENS. Fucking TOKENS. One token is "worth" $2, so instead of 16 coins to do a load of laundry, now you need 2. Woop-de-bleeping doo. There's no token machine in the laundry room; only ( Read more... )