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 – and … Read more

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 Underground: Heroin Bruce Springsteen: … Read more

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 Cheap Trick: … Read more

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 a second. A local police force … Read more

“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 into authoritarianism, driven by one horrifying event … Read more

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 Cars: Candy-O Prefab Sprout: Cars … Read more

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 … Read more

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 that while it seemed close, Britain wouldn’t vote … Read more

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 Smiths’ The … Read more