I’ve just finished three barnstorming trips around the US to shoot videos for a National Geographic/Cengage textbook series on US history. This was fun. I dressed up as pilgrims, Civil War and Revolutionary War reenactors, Mark Twain, Paul Revere, George Washington, Rosie the … Read on
Kindly watch this short video: Everything you know about fans of Rush is probably wrong. That sort of bore out recently when I attended RushCon, a “Star Trek convention for Rush fans,” and found out it’s NOT only guys miming drum fills in 18-minute … Read on
Every now and then I tweet out a puzzle: who IS the greatest American rock’n’roll band ever? The English have their Stones, Zeppelin, Who, Clash, Beatles. Canada has Rush, Australia has AC/DC, Ireland has U2. And Switzerland has their Krokus. The best of … Read on
In a recent article in the wonderful This Land Press, Nathan Brown begins a defense for the need of 21st-century poetry with this Salman Rushdie quote: A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, … Read on
I used to think everyone should take a coast-to-coast train ride across the USA once in a lifetime. Now that I’ve done it, as I wrote about for National Geographic Traveler’s website, I think we should do it twice. Here’s my video making … Read on
Recently I spoke on WNYC’s Soundcheck radio show about the world’s Top 40 Rock’n’Roll Sites, which include evil dwarves, walls and bad Deep Purple lyrics, and topped by seeing — for the time being — Chuck Berry live. Here’s the interview that was … Read on
