Levon Helm, drummer and singer of The Band, passed away from throat cancer last week. The outpouring of love directed his way over the last week, from every corner of the world, was remarkable. His family did an interesting thing too; they told the world before he died that he was in his final…
I have a free idea for the Obama campaign that maybe someone has already thought of. Let me first say I really could give a shit about Barack Obama as a person; he’s as good as Romney for the “one percent” and Wall Street and is as poisoned by cash as any other Republican or Democrat our country’s…
A few years ago Gap Jeans asked me to appear in one of their ads. I wrote back: ‘Dear Gap, I might put on a pair of your jeans if you were to pay me a billion dollars, but even then I would have serious reservations.’ I get letters from people telling me they got married to The Ship Song, or…
PAUL F. TOMPKINS: THE VIDEO GAME.
Brilliant comedian Jon Dore, along with juvenile delinquents/creatives Adam Bee & Dave Derewlany, made this video last year. I am in it a lot. Almost the whole time!
It took place in French Canada.
In the late 1980s, while America was preoccupied with the Reconstruction and Leopold & Loeb, I worked behind a retail counter with a young lady named Allison. We had time to clean, because we had time to lean! Now, more than your whole lifetime later, Allison is an artist (as am I, after a fashion, it could be argued).
She and her main man Craig added this to @HGTV’s #thestudio public mural, and this touched me. It’s the simple things, you know? Those are the ones that get me.
strawberryluna, I am certain that Austin loves you, too. And so do I, old friend.
We love you Austin. (Taken with instagram)
