[Yes, I know it's been forever since I've posted. But this is a special occasion. Some of the language below is taken from public-access mental health documents.]

ELIMINTATION OF RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION: THE ROAD TO ENGAGEMENT

Promote best practices in a compassionate environment“Do you understand why it was wrong for you to eat Dr. Simon’s ( Read more... )

Doug Fieger, 1952-2010. Lead singer for The Knack, whose "My Sharonna" was inescapable in 1979 and has managed to stick around ever after. With all due respect to the late Mr. Fieger, I was never able to regard either the band or its biggest hit as anything other than processed new-wave product. But it was a big, loud, energetic presence when I ( Read more... )

After having to miss last year, I'm delighted to be returning to Boskone this coming weekend. Hope to see many of you there. My schedule ( Read more... )

I can't remember the last time I was more pleased with a Saturday Night Live sketch. Worth sitting through the brief ad.

Retro-lifestyle folk. Note to the individual who wishes she'd been born in 1874 instead of 1974: if you had been, chances would be significantly increased that you'd already have been dead for several years. Just saying.

And is this as whack as I think it is?

The Catcher in the Rye was pretty much the first 20th-century novel written for adults I ever read. I was eleven. I immediately read Salinger’s other three books--Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction--and reread them periodically over the next decade or so. Except for Nine Stories, ( Read more... )

I suspect I'm not the only one who has been neglecting Livejournal in favor of Facebook. I will try to do better.

In the meantime: The Heavy, "How You Like Me Now" (2009). Now that’s what I’m talking about. Here is the live performance on David Letterman a couple of nights ago-to the best of my knowledge, the only time Dave has ever asked for ( Read more... )

Founding member of Steeleye Span. I vividly recall seeing the band on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert when I was in high school and being entranced.

...to everyone. No links--it's a holiday, after all.

Recently rediscovered: Grace Slick and the Great Society, "Somebody to Love" (1965). A live performance of the original, pre-Jefferson Airplane version. Slower and sparer than the JA hit single. It would be hard to overstate how much I like this.