Last night, after watching the first night of the Republican National Convention, The Dummy’s alter ego posted this to his Facebook page: “I want to be very clear about what…
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There’s nothing more humbling for us little scribes than getting notes from readers. Well, I suppose getting lumped in to the whole Hitler has a micropenis thing would be humbling….
Okay, punk rockers, patients, and patrons, we’re kicking off the QJE Brigade with a look at Waze. QJE Assignment Number One: Waze Love it. Works great. I miss the funny…
At the end of his two-plus hour acoustic set, Ben Harper leaned back into his chair, pushed the Fedora off his forehead and took a deep breath. After a beat,…
While cleaning out the office the other day I stumbled across this Pop Quiz that I’d done for the San Francisco Chronicle back in May of 1996… I’m going to…
Ran across this story the other day… It was published in Harp, a great magazine that spit out its last pages in 2008. Amy’s music sticks with me to this…
Apparently I wrote a bio for Third Eye Blind back in 1995. From what I remember, or at least what Stephan Jenkins told me at the time, I was about…
The Dummy Notes: Perry Farrell freaked me out. He didn’t do anything extra special. Just the idea of talking on the phone with him gave me the heebie-jeebies. I actually…
NOTE: That photo is not Cracker circa 1994, but I mean, come on, it’s hilarious. So, it’s 1994. I fall in love with “August and Everything After” by the Counting…