I Have No Regrets About My Ralph Nader Vote, Work Jul27

I Have No Regrets About My Ralph Nader Vote, Work

While everyone is deciding what to do with their votes this year, let me share some thoughts about the Ralph Nader 2000 campaign effort and what it meant to me. I’m mainly throwing this together for two reasons: 1) While I no longer get threats or nasty emails about my work for Nader...

Long songs … Jul20

Long songs …

As can sometimes happen, life got in the way and I had to throw together a show tonight. So I did, featuring some of my favorite long songs, LOL. 🙂 The Dandy Warhols: It’s a Fast-Driving Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes … Isaac Hayes: Walk on By The Velvet...

Top D Songs Plus New Stuff Jul13

Top D Songs Plus New Stuff

Here’s what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Sophie B. Hawkins: Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover The Rolling Stones: Dance (Part 1) Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days Azure Ray: Dancing Ghosts The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Date with a Knife...

Dallas Police Used Robot with Bomb to Kill Shooter Jul09

Dallas Police Used Robot with Bomb to Kill Shooter

I’m glad this is starting to get out there a bit: Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas The Dallas Police force essentially executed an alleged guilty party by using a remote operated vehicle armed with a bomb. Stop and think about that for...

I’m as Old as Mr. Howell Jul08

I’m as Old as Mr. Howell

“Lovey!” While watching “Gilligan’s Island” on MeTV for a few minutes tonight, I realized that I’m as old as Jim Backus was when he appeared on the show as the character, “Mr. Howell.” This simply stuns me right now…

You’re Just Seeing Authoritarianism Now? Jul08

You’re Just Seeing Authoritarianism Now?

Where have you been? This morning, a well-known media critic who I respect and admire – although differ often – wrote on Facebook that he “never felt more depressed and paralyzed about what’s going on in our country than I do right now. I fear that we’re sliding...

Songs in the Key of C Jul06

Songs in the Key of C

Here’s the Taste the Floor playlist for July 6, 2016, my most played songs beginning with the letter C, according to iTunes. The Replacements: Can’t Hardly Wait The Knack: Can’t Put a Price on Love The Rolling Stones: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Iggy Pop (with Kate Pierson): Candy The...

Baby, Bad: Top B Songs Jun29

Baby, Bad: Top B Songs

Here is the playlist from the June 29, 2016, Taste the Floor radio show – some of the top B songs on my iTunes stream (some had to be left off, due to swear words). The Who: Baba O’Riley INXS: Baby Don’t Cry Cheap Trick: Baby Loves to Rock Echo & the Bunnymen: Baby Rain Echo &...

Surprising Brexit Vote But … Jun24

Surprising Brexit Vote But …

Not so surprising, when one thinks about it. National sovereignty and identity are important and globalization is not working and won’t ever work for the people. That’s what everyone can take out of the Brexit vote. I’ve been following the WSJ coverage and I was pretty sure...

The Queen is Dead Turns 30 Jun22

The Queen is Dead Turns 30

On June 16, 1986, in Great Britain and June 23, 1986, The Smiths influential album, “The Queen is Dead,” was released. On the Taste the Floor radio show this week, we checked out the songs on the album as well as some of the b-sides from the singles released from the album. The...