Archive for October, 2005

Hangover wins over Eugene

Posted 22 October 2005 | By | Categories: Arts Biz, Music - Retro | 4 Comments

Marc Time, my old friend and the founder of robot dancing, swept the radio awards in the Eugene Weekly’s annual “Best Of Eugene” issue! Marc took the bowling trophies for Best Local Radio Personality and Best Radio Show. Considering he’s on at 8am on Sundays, that’s an impressive achievement. Way to motivate the voter base, Marc!

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Holy Toledo, Bill King has left the building

Posted 18 October 2005 | By | Categories: Essays, Sports | No Comments

Up on the playa, someone asked me to tell her something about me that might surprise her. After thinking for a moment, I came up with the most shocking thing I could think of in that place at that time: I am a diehard, dyed-green Oakland A’s fan. (The shock is the baseball fan bit, [...]

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Capital. It fails us now?

Posted 18 October 2005 | By | Categories: Music - Retro | No Comments

It’s 8:00 on a Tuesday and I could hop the bus and be outside The Warfield in a matter of minutes scalping tickets for Gang Of Four. I loved their show in May and they recorded two of my all-time favorite albums, but something stops me, just as something stops me from scurrying after Go4′s [...]

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Help stamp out entropy

Posted 18 October 2005 | By | Categories: Site News | No Comments

First, there’s the little matter of not writing for over a month. I’ve had some all-consuming real estate issues that have absorbed a lot of my free thinking time, the end-of-season and playoff grind of baseball did its annual number on my brain and frankly the pile of music to “get through” got daunting enough [...]

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