A Magazine of Popular (and Unpopular) Culture
Forty years ago today, on August 1, 1981, an upstart television network made a rather wobbly launch. Marred by technical glitches, packed to the brim with marginal, almost random content …
Too Much Is Never Enough
On Father’s Day 2019, my two young sons and I visited the delightful Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas, as we had numerous times before. This century-old public garden, a …
Where No Okie Has Gone Before
So you lost a whole summer to COVID-19 and now you’re vaxxed, waxed and maxed to make up for lost time. You got your hair cut, bought a couple summer …
Music for a Free-Range Summer
HOLY HOME VIDEO, BATMAN! Nearly a full year after this story was first published here at Honk, video from these gigs has suddenly surfaced on YouTube, posted by Kirk Rhorer, …
The Bullet, the Juice and Me
The Big ’80s! When you think of the pop music of that shiny plastic decade, what do you hear in your head? Chances are whatever song springs to mind will …
Trevor Horn: Sonic Architect of the Eighties
The Year of Our Lord 2020 will forever be remembered for its chaos, uncertainty and turmoil — but despite it all, there were still bright spots, glistening golden kernels sprinkled …
Three of a Kind
When I first set out to compile a playlist of musicians who passed in 2020, I knew it would be a bigger task than usual, given the number of COVID-related …
The Grim Reaper’s 2020 Playlist
Rabbit holes are funny things. This morning, Christmas Day, 2020, I was goofing around on Facebook when I saw a post mentioning the ’70s song “Beautiful Sunday” by Daniel Boone. …
Down the Ol’ Rabbit Hole
Elvis Presley has now been dead longer than he lived, and in the years since his untimely passing, the cruelty of time and the whims of social change have reduced …
Eternally Elvis
Warning: This article is 3100 words long and I freely admit it just barely skims the surface of the subject matter. So don’t @ me about your favorite Beatles cover …
Everybody Sings the Beatles