bloody January

Jesus Christ on the crapper! Another one of my heroes has died. Howard Zinn, the left-wing historian who gave us the excellent tome A People's History of the United States. On the plus side, he lived to the ripe old age of 87. Still, I'm gonna miss watching new interviews and talks with him. With his constant smiling and avuncular tone, you couldn't help but like him. Noam Chomsky could learn a lesson or two from Zinn's public-speaking style. . . .

back from the dead

Was going to delete this blog, but I'm gonna keep it going, mainly because when I go on vacations it's the best way to communicate with my family while I'm overseas.

Until then, I'm gonna treat this like a real blog -- no more record reviews.

Here's something that has me down today: the novelist Robert B. Parker has died. Kinda weird how I'm reading his latest, The Professional, this week.