. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built. It sounded too wild to be true! And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]
Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review
June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Why I Love Joe Biden
December 31st, 2023 · 35 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
First of all, he’s an Irish leprechaun, and I’m very pro Irish leprechaun. Second — he’s also an empath . . . as opposed to a sociopath. As he likes to say in his Irish way — “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” He’s smart, hard working, Gets Things […]
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Taylor Swift, the Grateful Dead and The Beat Generation
November 30th, 2023 · 28 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Music
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]
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