The Jibbies & Loond Show – A Heavy Metal Webcast: Episode 000 – The Pilot

Hello folks. Aamir and I have started a podcast covering what we love most: HEAVY METAL. The debut episode is attached below. There're a few small technical issues, but that's part of why we did it with just the two of us the first time around. We also wanted to use the first episode to …

Friday LinkFrogging – 7/2/10

God Bless America! Welcome to July dear readers.   Its time once again for fireworks, family and competitive eating.   And speaking of eating, how about a slice of cheesecake.   Say hello to Jessica Simpson and her patriotic bikini won't you?    Jess became our cheesecake this week by process of elimination.     I couldn't stomach the idea of using …

Geekdom reborn: Rev. Monroe presiding

A long time ago, on a shoreline far far away there lived a boy who liked nothing more than rifling through his parents’ record collections, putting the headphones on, and disappearing to a place even further away. Particular favorites included: ‘Sgt. Pepper’s,’ ‘Apostrophe,’ ‘Cruisin’ With Ruben and the Jets,’ and ‘Out Of The Blue.’ The …

It’s a Work – Anvil: The Story of Pro Wrestling

This past Tuesday night, I went to Charlotte’s newest live-music venue- the Fillmore. Anvil was performing and this past year’s documentary, ‘Anvil: The Story of Anvil’, depicting their history and struggles to achieve rock stardom had won me over; not with their music, but because these men have marched thanklessly to their own thrash metal …

The Greatest Music of the ’90s

Now that even the tail end of the decade is almost 10 years ago, I decided it was time to weigh in on this very important topic.  Important?, you ask. Why yes. Because at least one version of mainstream rock musical history goes like this: the Dinosaurs, Punk, 4 days of Power Pop, Hair Metal …

2008 – My Year in Books

  I never got around to writing any year end "best of lists."  There are plenty of those out there.  Just Google your favorite thing and I'm sure someone has compiled as list. Instead, what I've decided to do is share my year in books. I'm a steady if not voracious reader.  I've always got …

The Festrunk Equation

  The Festrunk Equation An Analytical Tool for the Baselining of Dating Behaviors, Trends and Expectations Presented by: Bruce D. Cook Stephe B. Sprouse Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Festrunk brothers, Yortuk and Georg, for whom this Equation is named. Yortuk and Georg were pioneers in the field of …

Fargo Rock City

..."Photograph" is the best Journey song ever made. I grew up in the 80s.  I grew up in what was, for all intents and purposes, a small town in South Louisiana.  I grew up liking 80s metal. There I said it. Ratt was my favorite band.  Or maybe it was Van Halen.  Eventually it was …