The Indigestible

“Gamma Ray”, from his new album, Modern Guilt: I won­der if Beck is using MJ’s oxy­gen cham­ber or some­thing. He still looks like he’s about 19.

In yet another exam­ple of the per­verse sense of humor of the uni­verse, an Indiana Wiccan stabbed her­self in the foot with a sword while con­duct­ing a good-​​​​luck rit­ual. MSNBC shares with us the story of Katherine Gunther, of Lebanon, IN. While per­form­ing the cer­e­mony under the light of a full moon1 in a ceme­tery — which includes, apparently, […]

“Calorie Lab” is a web­site that ordi­nar­ily pub­lishes more or less use­ful com­men­tary on diets and diet plans, gen­er­ally skew­ing to the reality-​​​​based side, but this last week they pub­lished a very cred­u­lous workup of Stanley Burroughs and his “cleanse” diet plan here. The arti­cle presents the diet in a more or less legit­i­mate sound­ing light until the […]

Or not, per­haps. Delia Derbyshire was appar­ently respon­si­ble for the mix of Ron Grainer’s Dr. Who theme in 1963, but damn, she did some other inno­v­a­tive, amaz­ing work in the ana­log era. Hit this link and lis­ten to her piece under the ‘Timeless’ header; or just hit this. That was last week, right? h/​​t Warren

Yes, another reply to a riposte from James Lileks of the Minnesota Star-​​​​Tribune. If it keeps up at this rate I might have to add another cat­e­gory. Thursday he was in rare form, and opened with a nice salvo: Another day in the Land of Inversion, where the obvi­ous is not an option. I heard more inter­views with learned […]

It’s sur­pris­ing some­times what you can lapse. Remember Bomb Pops? The red-​​​​white-​​​​blue multi-​​​​veined pop­si­cles ped­dled from the back of the ice cream truck? Well, okay, maybe not — and this isn’t a post about child­hood nos­tal­gia nor long­ing for the Days of Old When Things Were So Much Better, gag. Several months ago I began re-​​​​ripping my CDs […]