Month: October 2018

  • Steven Page at Delmar Hall

    We saw Steven Page at Delmar Hall last week. Remember when I went to see Steven Page in 2010, right after he left BNL, and I complained his new group didn’t seem to like him very much? Happily, he and his new trio appear to get along famously. Famously, or infamously, or former famously: it’s…

  • Fun in the Future

    Wednesday the 17th – Steven Page concert. My right hand is twitching just typing that. So excited. Later this month – Kathy Griffin at WashU. December 1 – Patton Oswalt at Ground Zero of Conservative America: the Saint Charles Family Arena. Santorum gave a victory speech there. Country music concerts play there, because rock music…

  • Everything Old is New Again, Again: Part the Second – Squirrel Nut Zippers

    I lived in a pop music desert in the 70s and 80s, because I grew up with all KMOX all the time until I rebelled by listening to NPR. Somehow, nothing improved after I married,so I missed most of the 90s bands until after they broke up, and that includes Squirrel Nut Zippers. Evidently, the…

  • Everything Old Is New Again, Again: Part the First – Landscaping

    When we bought the house thirty plus years ago, Gary and I toiled to make a zig-zaggy retaining wall to “retain” about eight inches of dirt. It was made of arsenic-treated pressurized lumber and we had been ASSURED it would last through the ages. Lies! The insects snarfed up that arsenic, the roots splayed it…