Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
By Tim Grobaty, columnist SANTA SECURITY: We love this time of year, which is Christmas. At least, it's Christmas at our desk, which every day sees some bit of holiday joy come across it.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
So, I get home from a lovely day of beaching and Ross Macdonald to discover that McCain's picked a lady for his Veep—a psycho-lady Religious Right mouth-breathing fuss-nut who thinks evolution is...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
In the Dept. of Stuff You Wouldn't Bother Making Up If You'd Tried, Oct. 13 brings glad tidings in the form of We Wish You a Metal Christmas , which is exactly what it says it is. Elves are involved, of course: Ronnie James Dio sings "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" while backed by guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Rudy Sarzo, and drummer Simon Wright. John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is taken up...
Shadowscope (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
When I went to shows more often back in my teens, up until I hit about thirty, quite often a band would tour and I just wouldn't get to see them. The first big tour that Metallica did in the southeast was opening for Ozzy Osbourne. I caught that show in Knoxville, TN. I think I've even posted about meeting the band and road tripping to that show.
