Next week, we’ll round up the most listened to songs beginning with the letter E, plus new stuff. Here’s what I played this week: The Jesus & Mary Chain: Taste the Floor Julian Cope: East Easy Rider Let’s Active: Edge of the World Blondie: Eat to the Beat Arcadia: Election...

I’ve now entered into songs that start with the letter E in my iTunes stream. Here are some new songs, a couple of oldies, and the remaining most played songs that begin with D and now E, too. Pixies: Tony’s Theme Alexa Madrid: Elizabeth Hale Annexe the Moon: Lives on Mars Garbage:...

Yup, that’s right, this NowThis “fact check” is, drum roll please … mostly false. You don’t have to like Donald Trump but here are the facts: First, yes, George H.W. Bush signed the agreement between the three nations as a lame duck president but it was not law...

Here’s this week’s playlist. The Taste the Floor Show is heard on WNHN 94.7 LP in Concord and now, IPMNation.com, which picked up the show this week: Alexa Madrid: Summer of Love Annexe The Moon: Soon Meg Birch with Landa: God Only Knows Esme Patterson: Alone Blondfire: Pleasure...

Here’s a quick video from a trip I took last weekend visiting Mount Washington and the Basin:

I was featured this week on the NPR program “On the Media,” talking about my analysis of the 2000 election. Here’s my six minutes that made it onto the program: http://www.wnyc.org/story/defense-nader They kept all my most important points in – even the self-criticism...

Half right. Typical Phil Gramm: “Why This Recovery Is So Lousy” Yes, regulation sometimes hurts; so does dereg, like your end to Glass-Steagall. That said, the recovery is so lousy primarily because there are no decent wage, low skill private sector jobs for the country’s...

Simply stunning …

Nice … I-89 North in New Hampshire …

Here’s what I played on this week’s Taste the Floor Show: Bickenhall featuring Camille Marsh: Chasing the Rain Meg Birch: I’m Not in Love Annexe The Moon: Bring You Down Fleshtones: Love My Lover Esme Patterson: We Were Wild Joanna Gruesome: Occult Bookshop Alexa Madrid: Other...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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…

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...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

I’ve been talking about this a bit on Facebook and also trying to find the routes by which Donald Trump wins the presidency. Admittedly, it is a tough climb. I talked a little bit about it: “70% OF THE WHITE GUY VOTE” NEEDED? NOT REALLY. It really is holding Romney’s states and...

It was fun last week so I tried it again. Here are some of the songs I played today: Pixies: Tony’s Theme Heart: All I Want to Do is Make Love to You Echo & the Bunnymen: All I Want Duran Duran: All She Wants Is The Dandy Warholds: All the Money or the Simple Life Honey The Velvet...

This week on the Taste the Floor show, I played a selection of my most played songs on the iTunes player beginning with the letter A. Here are some of the songs I played this week: Pixies: Tony’s Theme Paul Westerberg: AAA Tribe: Abort Blondie: Accidents Never Happen Azure Ray: Across the...

Today marks my fifth anniversary with Patch.com. Two and half of those years were working on the Concord site alone; another two and half years working on 11 to 15 sites. I can’t believe all that has been accomplished in that time: First and second place finishes for Best Website in NH,...

A really riveting and thoughtful piece this morning on the Saturday essay in the WSJ: A Guaranteed Income for Every American. This is definitely worth more study. Here’s the basic concept from Murray. First: A UBI will do the good things I claim only if it replaces all other transfer...

Stephen Covey didn’t have a category for banana orange tequila smoothies in his time management matrix. I will file under “urgent” or “values clarification.” LOL 🙂

Here are the songs I played this week: Pixies: Tony’s Theme Echo & the Bunnymen: Heads Will Roll (Summer Version) Echo & the Bunnymen: Silver (Tidal Wave Version) Bananarama: Cruel Summer The Psychedelic Furs: Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs: Yes I Do (Merry-go-round) New...

Former Clintonista Doug Schoen adds more speculative weirdness to an already supposedly improbable election cycle. He hints that she might not be the nominee … Wow: Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee

I remember this debate. I also remember this man… this was the Jerry Brown that I adored and admired. This is the man I put nearly a year of my life on hold to support and volunteer for in seven different states including months and months in the snow in New Hampshire, a second place...

I’m not big on the Facebook graphics thing. In fact, I hate most of them. I thought this was funny though.