The Clerk Manifesto

My wife and I voted, not that there was much to vote for this off year. I got my "I Voted" sticker and put it on. My wife ga...

My first day back from our trip to Florence and Rome (it was lovely, thank you so much. Oh, you'd like to hear about it in exhausti...

Yes, we're back to the series I was working on before my trip to Florence and Rome. This series is the 100 greatest albums of all ...

Though I am writing this well ahead of time in preparation for a two week trip to Italy (mostly Florence), today in real time, accordi...

Well, I have spent the day writing blog posts. As you know, because I keep telling you, I have to cover all my posts while I am gone o...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I find...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I fin...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I find these...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I find these ...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I find thes...

By the time you read this my wife and I will be in Florence.  I am reading a lot of reviews in preparation for this trip. I find these c...

Yesterday I set forth a scheme for writing a lot of blogposts in a short time for a long trip. The scheme, or theme, or rule was: Onl...

Yesterday, right here, in this very space, where you are right now, metaphorically at least, though you might actually be in the same ...

In the great unbroken streak of this blog (thousands of days in a row with a new post every day) I have had to contend with a few larg...

The first time I saw the Grateful Dead I was young, high on mushrooms that had hideously been blended into a milkshake, and high as w...

To my delight, as I have begun compiling a list of the hundred greatest albums ever (being 100 albums that are in and of themselves...

We wouldn't get too far on my list of the hundred greatest albums of all time (with each individually being the greatest single ...

Look, I'm not going to bring you out of the saddest album ever made without care. The heartbreaking Lucinda Williams Live at the F...

Fine. Yesterday we hearkened back to the beginning; We asked, what was for us the first greatest album ever made. And we found a ...

Seriously? The Red Album by the Beatles? A "best of" album as the greatest album of all time? Yes. To my exceedingly...