The Entroporium

Last update: December 20, 4pm PDT. You know you need it: Christmas music that you can bear. Get these on your iPod and connect it to the stereo before your stepmother can hit Play on The Kenny G Christmas Album. I’ll add to this list as I find more good sites. Music blogs with massive [...]

Howard Dully during his transorbital lobotomy, Dec. 16, 1960. George Washington University Gelman Library For fear of being one of those bloggers who write “Guess what I heard on NPR today,” I still need to recommend this remarkable story. Howard Dully, a 56-year old man, spent two years researching the circumstances behind his lobotomy at [...]

Something was deeply, weirdly wrong with Meg. She was completely off time, playing the wrong parts at the wrong times, and was generally blowing it. It was so bad, this could have been a first rehearsal with her never having heard the songs before. My friends and I all looked at each other dumbstruck. Could this be for real? Meg will never win any drumming awards, and any fan will tell you that that’s not really her M.O. as part of the band, but this was preposterously sloppy.