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What is a Real Estate Novelist? Analyzing Billy Joel’s Piano Man

10 Apr 202216 Nov 2023
Hey Billy. What is a "real estate novelist"? and do you know what a novel is? I don’t remember the first time I heard Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” I don’t…
Christmas…

Is Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” a Christmas Song?

8 Dec 201828 Aug 2023
Every year, a few conversations begin to occur simultaneously before, on, and after Thanksgiving and continue through the new year. There are things you can expect to talk about with…
A Game of Thrones…

Ed Sheeran Didn’t Ruin Anything. Game of Thrones is Rooted in Popular Music

23 Jul 201718 Sep 2022
Game of Thrones is Not Sacred. It’s Grateful Dead Fan Fiction The first episode of the seventh season of HBO’s Game of Thrones sparked a multitude of reactions, but perhaps…
Books…

Stop Misquoting Leonard Cohen and Ernest Hemingway. Start Listening and Reading.

12 Jan 201711 Sep 2023
The world breaks every one... or does it? Consider the misquote. It lies in that same realm as citing fake news or reading only the headline. Misquoting is certainly nothing new,…
American Psycho…

The Kanye with a Thousand Faces: Exploring the Inevitable Kanye West Musical, Part One

6 Apr 20167 Jul 2016
Some things are inevitable: death, taxes, reboots, and musical adaptations. This blog has thoroughly discussed the "dark and gritty reboot," but what about the inevitable musical adaptation? Every person, place,…
A Game of Thrones…

The Link Between George R. R. Martin and the Grateful Dead

19 Feb 201614 Feb 2023
Everything I know About the connections between the Grateful Dead, Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire Update 2022: parts of this article were originally written as…
Bale…

How to Finally Become a David Bowie Fan

1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016
It's a strange thing when a celebrity dies. Some people mourn for days or weeks or months. Others feel ostracized when it's someone whose work they didn't know, outside the…
Adele…

“Please stop calling here, Adele.”

17 Nov 20155 Jul 2016
A dialogue with Adele, from the perspective of the person she should not be calling. All of Adele's lyrics are from the song "Hello." The Audience's lyrics are invented for…
Bale…

Are Kubrick and Spielberg Renegades? (And Other Odd Film References in Pop Music)

3 Sep 201522 Sep 2016
There's a new song on the radio by a band I hadn't heard of. It's called "Renegades" and they're called X-Ambassadors. In this song, they celebrate "running wild and running…
Macklemore…

Not Stopping, White Walls, and Double Standards: Miley Cyrus vs. Macklemore.

14 Apr 201514 Apr 2015
Note: this blog post is actually something I wrote last summer, but never posted on here.  I figured I would share it here now. A few days ago, I heard…

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