Don McLeese

Hi Bill!

I loved dealing with David Barker and suspect I fared better then than I would with 33 1/3 now. I was on a very short tenure clock and needed to publish something quickly. The very notion of owing my tenure to the MC5 is an absurdity I embrace. This was also my first book.

Whatever your objections to the pardon, Joe Biden doesn't give a damn. Which is the major significance and part of the point. It's as much a middle finger to the Democratic Party that dumped him (and will certainly experience repercussions) as it is to the Republicans who hounded the Biden family.

YouTube video by Wussy Wussy - Inhaler (Official Lyric Video)

Thanks to the social media critics' cabal for introducing me to Wussy. Very addictive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnF8...

I recently retired after teaching journalism at UIowa for 21 years. Was a journalist before that, mainly music and popular culture

When I talked with him (and George Clinton), it was like I was from a different planet.

YouTube video by Live Preserver Shelby Lynne & Toni Price: Live on Austin City Limits (2000)

Didn't even know this existed. Watching now.
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I loved that book. It's rarely as easy a process or decision as some might make it--especially if the art is truly great. I think less now of both McCarthy and Alice Munro than I once did, but not of their writing.

www.toniprice.me

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RIP, Toni Price
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The political coverage of Trump hasn't been nearly as bad as the "normalizations" of Joe and Mika and Bezos. I'm keeping a list, checking it twice.

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Yet another album about staring into the abyss of mortality. Make it a double!
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I rarely post here, nor did I on Twitter, but great to see more shifting from that toxic site