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Author: Michael Carmody

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Reelin’ in the Years
A New Year's Eve playlist for the ages

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Well, here we are at the end of another exhausting year of disease, death, social upheaval, creeping fascism, across-the-board uncertainty and sundry shades of dread. As seems to have become …

Reelin’ in the Years
A New Year's Eve playlist for the ages
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Social Studies

Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Jason?
The unnecessary death of the nicest guy in town

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 - by Michael Carmody

It must have been 20 or more years ago when I first met Jason Fritts. I don’t know the year, exactly, but I recall the cirumstance. I was on my …

Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Jason?
The unnecessary death of the nicest guy in town
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Fuckboy / Honk Plus

Fuckboy, Chapter One
The unmaking of an All-American kid

November 28, 2021December 6, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - 2 Comments.

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Fuckboy, Chapter One
The unmaking of an All-American kid
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Music

This Is Where We Walked
REM was my gateway band to cool music

November 16, 2021January 5, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

This article is dedicated to the lonesome misfits of Generation X. Names of people and some places have been changed for the usual reasons. In 1983 I was an obnoxious …

This Is Where We Walked
REM was my gateway band to cool music
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Music

All’s Well That Cowbells
Honk Journal's Ultimate Cowbell Playlist

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

The cowbell has been with us for something like 5,000 years now, from humble beginnings in Africa, where early herdsmen hung small bells made from pottery around the necks of …

All’s Well That Cowbells
Honk Journal's Ultimate Cowbell Playlist
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Cruel Summer (and Autumn and Winter)
The party train don't stop here anymore (part 2 of 2)

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

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Cruel Summer (and Autumn and Winter)
The party train don't stop here anymore (part 2 of 2)
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Music

Rudy Love: This Song Is for You
Farewell to a sorely overlooked man of music

October 6, 2021November 29, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

On October 6, 2021, the music fans of Wichita, Kansas were crushed to hear of the passing of local legend Rudy Love. But the fact that so comparatively few beyond …

Rudy Love: This Song Is for You
Farewell to a sorely overlooked man of music
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Music

Jane! Jane! Jane!
Your Ultimate Jane Playlist

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

As a young man just entering my 20s I fell for a time into the orbit of a Jane. It was then that I first noted the preponderance of songs …

Jane! Jane! Jane!
Your Ultimate Jane Playlist
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Honk Plus / Vintage MC

I’ll Fly Away
9/11, psych meds and me

September 11, 2021September 11, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

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I’ll Fly Away
9/11, psych meds and me
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Music / Vintage MC

Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
Mixtape from a Clinton-era zine

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

The latter half of the 1990s was a transitional time for the music industry. Production of vinyl records had petered out almost entirely and the long-popular cassette format was plummeting …

Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
Mixtape from a Clinton-era zine
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Oh, that's a great one. I first stumbled onto Simple Minds with "New Gold Dream." Somehow I came across a…

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"Promised You A Miracle" by Simple Minds always sounds like springtime to me.

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While reading this today, a fb notice appeared in the corner of my PC screen. You and some other friends…

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