Dw. Dunphy: I thought I’d start things off tonight with a joke: So “¦ Judas, Benedict Arnold, and the dude from Raiders of the Lost Ark who gets the spikes…
Brandon Schott
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Hello. My name is Brandon Schott, and I’m an LA-based singer-songwriter-producer-father-husband. Jeff asked me to write a little something for Popdose in anticipation of our joint charity event at Safari…
Zack Dennis
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In Mike Judge’s 1999 comedy Office Space, its protagonist Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is described by the downsizing consultants as a “straight shooter with upper management written all over him.”…
John C. Hughes
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Let’s get all the cute little jokes about the title of today’s featured song out of the way first, shall we?Á‚ I’ll pause while you do so. G’head, get ’em…
Ted Asregadoo
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An Open Letter to Hurricane Gustav By Ted Asregadoo Damn you, Gustav!Á‚ I mean, how could you have the audacity to downgrade from a Category 3 to the Category 2…
David Medsker
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You guys are way too good at this. Fortunately for you, I had already created a bunch of these quizzes before I realized how quickly you’d pick them off. When…
Popdose Staff
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M83 – “Teen Angst” Placebo – “Teenage Angst” Zack: It’s hard to argue that there’s anybody who has a better grasp of teen angst than Gordon Gano of the Violent…
Jon Cummings
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It’s hard to know exactly what to write in this space today, because as of this writing it’s difficult to know what form this week’s Republican National Convention will take….
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Scott Malchus
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Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) returns to the television landscape tonight at 10 PM EST with another lawyer series on TNT. Raising the Bar focuses on the justice…
Jeff Giles
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Ah, the fourth quarter. It isn’t as much of an event as it used to be, but even as the music industry crumbles to dust before our very eyes, artists…
Robert Cass
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Michael Jackson turns 50 today. Fifty! Jacko is five-oh! Hard to believe, probably because the man hasn’t acted his age — or looked his age, for that matter — in…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, did you miss me? I hardly missed myself. We’re back with the twenty-seventh unstoppable week of Name That Tune at Popdose. And we brought the rules with us,…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5NEE8oURdM0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey” (1987) John C. Hughes: Puppets! Á‚ Well, marionettes. Á‚ Everything is better with puppets/marionettes. Á‚ Except for this. Jon Cummings:…
Ted Asregadoo
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Well, the big night arrived, and the three of us gathered together to experience this historic moment in America the only way we knew how:Á‚ via the warm glow of…
Jeff Giles
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The Office: Season Four purchase this DVD (Amazon) This is the best comedy on television, but it finished its fourth season languishing at #77 in the Nielsens, while Two and…
Dw. Dunphy
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It’s a cynical world, and there isn’t much to do about it. I grab rare glimpses of virtue whenever I can, but I’m seldom overwhelmed with opportunities. A couple weeks…
Michael Fortes
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While a large chunk of San Francisco’s concert-going population was crowding Golden Gate Park for that big ol’ Outside Lands festival, Saturday night, August 23, 2008, at Kimo’s was a…
John C. Hughes
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Boy, we’d buy anything in the ’70s, wouldn’t we? Laverne & Shirley, the most successful spin-off from Happy Days, was riding high in 1976, overtaking its parent show to capture…
Jon Cummings
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Jon: Well, so much for the “civic duty” I believed would guilt the Popdose community into following the political conventions: Even my heretofore partner in blogging crime, Ted Asredagoo, abandoned…
Scott Malchus
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The freshman’s bags sat on the floor next to the bed his mother had just finished making up. It would be the last time she made his bed and the…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Ben Wiser
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It was the summer of 1985. There was me, Kromlock the Warrior, my friend Dennis, better known as Garmo the Wizard, and Peter, a.k.a. Hendrix the half-even ranger. We were…
Darren Robbins
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This past weekend, drummer Steve Foley passed away at the age of 49. Foley, of course, is best known for replacing Chris Mars in the Replacements for their final tour…
Jeff Giles
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The Gabe Dixon Band – The Gabe Dixon Band (Fantasy) purchase this CD (Amazon) I was never any good at math, but I know enough to understand the basic laws…
Jeff Giles
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Two Dog Garage – Pinboy purchase this album (MySpace) Two Dog Garage is Alex Kimmell, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter who’s spent his career to date doing the usual 21st-century singer/songwriter…
David Medsker
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Pull out the headphones for this one, kids. Otherwise, you laptop toters will hear nothing until the 19-second mark. I wonder if a label would even allow a song like…
Dave Steed
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I’m writing this week’s post on a Sunday afternoon. Why is that significant? Because it’s the absolute best day of the week for “Ëœ80s music. My wife and I end…
Jon Cummings
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Jon: Our frequent commenter “Elaine” is eager for us to objectify Hillary tonight. Are we “up” for it? Ted: I’m game”¦ Jon: So, Mark Warner looks pretty good. I keep…
Ted Asregadoo
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Jon: What were your impressions of Ted & the Kennedys? He looked pretty good, considering. Ted: He did a very good job. Kennedy finished probably his last political speech, and…