If you don’t know who Dom Irrera, he’s sort of the Godfather of road comedians— stand up is a punishing trade, and comedians try to get away from it when they can. It’s also a […]
Category: humor
Phil Austin 1941-2015
Very sorry to hear we lost another comedy legend last week: Phil Austin, from the Firesign Theater— an incredible surrealist satire troupe, if you don’t know them; they’re really the American Monty Python. Austin was […]
Comedy break
While I’m embroiled in working on the new rock-and-funk book— which is in the wonderful snowballing-on-me-and-just-about-needing-a-total-reorganization phase— enjoy some classic turn-of-the-90s comedy: Get A Life, starring Chris Elliot. If you haven’t seen it, it is […]
Stan Freberg 1926-2015
A few clips by comedian, satirist, and ad man Stan Freberg, who died yesterday. His heyday was before my time, but we had several of his albums in my dad’s record collection, and I memorized […]
A waste of time
Here’s a good video in case you ever wonder “Am I wasting my time geeking out on this drumming nonsense? Does anyone really care if I get such-and-such particular little drum thing together?” The answer […]
Transcription: Airto — Earache My Eye
Cheech & Chong’s Earache My Eye is just an eternal piece of American teenage rock & roll culture, along with Smoke On The Water, Iron Man, Sunshine Of Your Love… like that. On hearing it […]
NAKED CLICKBAIT: ten pieces of drumming equipment you should throw away TODAY!
I don’t know, I just felt like writing an inane Buzzfeed-style listicle a few weeks ago, and I’m tired of looking at this in my drafts folder. Please don’t be offended if one of your […]
Tape for sale, cut up
Need to get rid of that horrible ring in yer snayer drum? Well, these guys are selling a product that may be said to be the answer: As the man said, that drum sounds awesome. […]
Melancholia
Sometimes it can be really hard to just do the the obvious unfinished work in front of you. A fairly unproductive week put me to mind of this famous engraving by the artist Albrecht Dürer, […]
Al Feldstein 1925-2014
A bigger cultural milestone than most people know has been passed today: Al Feldstein, the editor of Mad Magazine for many years, has passed away. From Huffington Post: Before “The Daily Show,” ”The Simpsons” or […]
Waterloo bullet
All right, people, we are going to be on really, truly, unconscionably light posting through most of the next week as I do my taxes, get it together for, and then go play the Ballard […]