Selected pieces on music, journalism, TV, academia and life in general …
- Nov. 24, 2015: A Music Major Confesses: I Love Rock and Roll (Popdose)
- Oct. 28, 2015: Teddy Dure, 2001/02?-2015 (Mostly Modern Media)
- Aug. 28, 2015: My hometown, my writing, my life (Mostly Modern Media)
- Aug. 27, 2015: What’s THAT Supposed to Mean?: R.E.M., “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” (Popdose)
- June 15, 2015: The Attack on Truth: Postmodernism and propaganda (Mostly Modern Media)
- April 30, 2015: Ann Hammond Dure: 1939-1995 (Mostly Modern Media)
- April 5, 2015: Does a TV series have to last to be successful? (Mostly Modern Media)
- March 23, 2015: Paul Jeffrey, Duke jazzman (Mostly Modern Media)
- March 15, 2015: The value of a four-year college (Mostly Modern Media)
- Feb. 12, 2015: Top 10 overrated and underrated Saturday Night Live stars on Rolling Stone’s list (Mostly Modern Media; I am an SNL encyclopedia)
- Nov. 23, 2014: Small towns, young politicians (OZY; picked up at CNN)
- Oct. 1, 2014: Why Millennials are avoiding small-town America (OZY; picked up at NPR)
- July 22, 2014: “Weird Al” bids a fitting end to the album era (Popdose)
- June 9, 2014: Rik Mayall, the people’s poet (Mostly Modern Media)
- May 29, 2014: Sex, nerds, entitlement, rape and getting better (Mostly Modern Media)
- May 21, 2014: Why we believe utter crap (Mostly Modern Media)
- May 2, 2014: In defense of the Spin Doctors (Popdose)
- Jan. 31, 2014: Sexism in Super Bowl ads (OZY)
- Jan. 1, 2014: How Reality Bites and the dictionary screw up irony (Mostly Modern Media)
- Feb. 25, 2013: We still need liberal arts, you morons (Mostly Modern Media)
- Jan. 25, 2009: Marimba player sighting? (Mostly Modern Media’s most-read — started conversation with Starbuck marimba player Bo Wagner)
- May 18, 2008: TV couples: Jim and Pam are not Sam and Diane (Mostly Modern Media)
- Contributions to USA TODAY magazine publications: Green Living, BCS preview, Year in Sports 2010, Fresh: Women’s Health Guide, NHL championship commemorative
Indexes:
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