Another look at the hatred for diversity that plagues the slot machine industry. Click through, please. More…

Click through for the next intersection of games of chance and crypto-hate! More…

Please click through for the latest example! More…

Click through to check it out! More…

John Mulaney is a standup and a writer for SNL and he’s super talented and he’s only halfway through his twenties. More…

This is the latest masterwork from Robert Popper, one half of the brain trust behind LOOK AROUND YOU, a show I put right alongside I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE in terms of sheer brilliance. More…

It’s like seeing Scrooge realize that he was once an innocent young goofball with all the world ahead of him. More…

Between the ramp up for the fundraising marathon, the two incredibly stressful weeks of the marathon, the inevitable post-marathon crash and the filming of a Nicholas Cage movie at the station during the 3/24 show, I feel that The Best Show has not been on its natural rhythm, as fun as some of those shows have been. More…

This just bums me out so much: More…

Any guesses? Think hard! More…

I knew it the second I saw this go down on television New Years Eve. More…

A NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN:

I will use the word ‘manque’ three times through the course of this review. But I do not use it in jest; it for a very serious reason. I volunteer for a charity called “Stroke Off”, which promotes the prevention of Type One (extremely low grade) heat stroke. More…

In the face of all the nastiness out there – a group of fifty men dressed as Santa robbing a Cheeseburger In Paradise in broad daylight?! (couldn’t find link to story, sorry!) – here are THREE QUICK THINGS THAT I LIKE A LOT: More…

Hello, fine people! How does this winter morning find you on this winter morning? More…

Me. More…

A couple weeks ago I got a DVD in the mail from Patton Oswalt for a movie called THE SNAKE. More…

December 7th marks the 83rd birthday of my uncle Alvino Rey, inventor of the legendary ‘talk box’. More…

Long time no blog. DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT.  More…

So, I thought I’d try to do a regular thing here where I jot down some of the (mostly nutso) experiences I’ve had in my 20-some years of treading the rock ‘n’ roll boards.

Today, I’m in the middle of a tour with a band called The Mountain Goats. I’m their drummer. It’s a wonderful experience. Today is my birthday and I am in Lubbock, TX. The last time I was here was September of 1991…. More…

…I couldn’t help wonder what might have gone through the mind of our twelfth president James Polk had he also watched. More…

Answer Two, Ask One? That sounds intriguing, Tom! What is it? More…

New York magazine’s blog just posted this article about me and my 33 1/3 struggle. More…

I usually don’t go and get all braggy about what we do over at S&W HQ – my pastor always insists that ‘modesty is how you should roll’ (I can’t find this exact passage in the Bible, but he insists its in there) – More…

It’s very simple. And you will thank me for this. More…

This book I’m reading. The Greatest Sci-fi Movies Never Made by David Hughes. Here’s a link to it. Basically the guy goes into insane detail documenting movies that either fell apart before getting filmed or came out sad shadows of what they could’ve been. More…

Last night I saw the Germs biopic, “What We Do Is Secret.” It’s not the easiest thing to pull off a film on a subject such as this, and I give all involved much credit.  There were several excellent moments, and Shane West was great as Darby Crash –especially during the live performances.

And now I ask… More…

I loved Bernie Mac. A lot. How much? More…

Will be redoubled. And then redoubled again.

This franchise will be taken up a notch or two. The steps have already been set in motion. Meetings have been held.

Blogs will resume.

Tom.

…but I feel it’s time to address something.

While it’s true that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Idi Amin, Jim Jones, etc are responsible for many of the worst examples of human behavior on record, it is also true that, as far as I know, none of them ever played the harmonica, by themselves, in a public place. More…

Or should that read “It is IN times like these IN WHICH I love life”?

I’m sitting with my back to the TV screen (don’t judge me), and I hear it….the mandolin. Then the melodica. It’s heaven to mine ears, and it can only mean two things:

A) “And We Danced” …the tune by my dudes…my homies…the Hooters.
B) “Cold Case”…what other show besides “Hack” or “Angie” is set in Philly (I mean besides that Phila version of “Scared Straight” circa: 1981 where that inmate tells that one kid that he’s going to “ram my hoagie up your Schuylkill Expressway” if he doesn’t stop it with the shenanagins)?

Sure the “Cold Case” episode was about a heinous crime committed in 1986, but when was the last time you got to hear the fucking Hooters on national television? You gotta savor that stuff, right?

At this moment all is right with the world. Or should that read: “This is a moment IN WHICH all is right with the world”? Ah, who cares…where’s my powder blue jumpsuit?