Apropos Of Nothing

Just some random brain dribblings for a Thursday afternoon.

Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. "Dr. Death," is making a bid for a congressional run as an unaffiliated candidate in Michigan. While that's bizarre in and of itself, here's the kicker: The dude is still on parole. God Bless 'merica.

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Moses Atwood is playing The Skinny Pancake tonight. My adoration of Mr. Atwood's music has been well documented in the pages of Seven Days, as well as on The Radiator. Oddly enough, I've yet to see him live. Expect that to change this evening.

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I just took a look at the latest installment of The Burlington Free Press' effort to appeal to the ever-important young, beautiful and dumb demographic, "Ob-Scene," er, "B-Scene." Seven  Days' readers should be familiar with the new rag because, for some reason, BFP uses our newsstands to distribute it. This, of course, leads to the inevitable misconception that we have something to do with its publication. We don't.

However, if we did, here's what I would do to spice it up a bit:

1. The 100+ pretty pictures of young, attractive white people spending money are all fine and dandy. But I need something that really grabs my attention. The center spread should have a "pop-up" feature depicting drunken What Ale's You revelers in white hats bearing clever phrases like "Cocks." As an aside, whatever happened to those "Co-ed naked" t-shirts?

2. Scratch-n-Sniff sections, especially for the bar pics. Since I can't go to every bar every night, like most folks, I need to live vicariously through pictures. But man cannot survive on visuals alone. To get the full sensory experience, I need sights, sounds and, of course, smells. Who doesn't want a good whiff of RJ's on a Saturday evening to complete their virtual night on the town? Perhaps each issue should come with a gravy fry from Nectar's too.

3. Words.

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I am already knee deep in freelance submissions resulting from the house ad we ran in this week's paper seeking additional writers for the music section. The ad makes it sound as though I'm overworked, which, to some degree I suppose I am. But who isn't, right? Ironically enough, the idea is to free me up to write even more, particularly on the blog. By the way, expect installment number one of my long overdue podcast series to make an appearance this weekend.

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Finally, here's the latest vid from Jeff Howlett's Howlerman Productions.  The band is local hardcore act Waiting For A Miracle. The tune is called "Dressed To Kill." Enjoy!

Comments

[MistressMaeve]

What DID happen to Co-ed Naked T-shirts?

I had the "Co-ed Naked Billiards: Get Felt On The Table" edition.

[Eva]

Hmm, these "words," what pray tell, are those? Gimme smiling bland pics and ads any ol' day! ;)