Author: Mark Alexander

Posted on

A Thing of Beauty

But—at least for the moment—he still holds the nuclear codes, and that has me terrified.

1 comments

Posted on

Fuck.

I should’ve realized something was up when the dogs let me sleep in until almost 5:30, even though one started making noise around 4:45 and I thought, “Please God no. I only went to bed at 12.” The living room light (on WEMO plug) wasn’t on. I figured it had malfunctioned, or had done a firmware update or some shit. So I got up and let the dogs out, and as I was getting their breakfast together, wondering what I was going to fix to take for lunch. I realized I didn’t have anything to fix (did we not get anything at the store yesterday?) and then it hit me…it was Sunday. We hadn’t even been shopping yet.

Fuck. Once the dogs were back in we all went back to bed.

0 comments

Posted on

So I’m Scrolling Through Tumblr…

(That’s still a thing, right? Is that still a thing? Tumblr, I mean…)

Anyway, I’m scrolling through Tumblr because I haven’t been on it in ages and not all of the pages that I follow there can be attached to my RSS Reader, so I wanted to get somewhat caught up and see if I missed anything interesting.

Oh my lord…there are…penises!…back on Tumblr.

Granted, not in the numbers they were before the purge, but they’re still there and proudly pointing to the sky (or ass, or mouth, or whatever).

It was kind of shocking after not seeing genitalia online to have them pop up (pardon the expression) in my face!

1 comments

Posted on

Released 25 Years Ago Today

Madonna: Bedtime Stories (1994)

Probably my favorite music video of all time.

The album itself is also available in a very limited edition 2-LP gatefold edition on pink vinyl. It is, of course, priced in the stratosphere and a completely unrealistic purchase on my salary. (And frankly, I’m not as hot to get it as I once was, learning that it’s on hot pink vinyl, not the powder-pink I feel it should’ve been.)

UPDATE: I had the date wrong on the release of this LP. It was actually October 25th, not the 5th.

0 comments

Posted on

My Latest Acquisition

One of those rare finds. Released in 1984 and still sealed in the original shrinkwrap.

0 comments

Posted on

Released 43 Years Ago Today

Elton John: Blue Moves (1976)

Like many others, when  Blue Moves first came out, and for many years later, I had a love/hate relationship with this album. The sound was so different from all of Elton’s previous work, and yet still so fresh. It also annoyed me no end back in the day that all four sides of the album wouldn’t fit on a standard 90 minute cassette tape, requiring that you buy a notoriously thin and prone to breakage and entanglement-in-the-player 120-minute cassette.

Now, of course, I think this collection is brilliant.

Favorite tracks: One Horse Town, Boogie Pilgrim, Crazy Water, Shoulder Holster, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, If There’s a God in Heaven (What’s He Waiting For?), and Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance).

0 comments