December 8, 1980

At first it was because our names were the same (I was a typically self-centered 12-year-old kid), but soon my favorite Beatle mantle was permanently draped on John. His sardonic acerbic wit and his clever wordplay along with edgier vocals (edgier than Paul) fit the image to which I aspired.
He could be an [...]

‘I’m not against capital punishment, I’m just against killing the wrong people’ - Kinky Friedman

I’m not saying that the people (I’m assuming it was a committee of small children and/or satirists) who wrote the instruction manual for my new Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player are totally out of touch with the King’s (or even Bush’s) english, but the language within the manual is a dialect with which I am not [...]