2015
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My Internet Radio Playlist, 5/12/15
EPISODE #180: ASK JACK, INSTALLMENT 10 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Smiths — “Ask” Question from Audrey: Here’s a question for ASK JACK that’s been bugging me for almost a year: Last Summer at a Rascal Flatts concert, the woman sitting behind me knew every word to every song and was enthusiastically singing […]
Movie Review: Ex Machina
4 stars out of 5 Sci-fi, you see, while seemingly about the FUTURE, is really about NOW, ya dig? Godzilla was about nuclear annihilation and Planet of the Apes was about civil rights and Ex Machina is about… uh… Google. We like looking stuff up but then we’re, like, afraid of these companies having all […]
Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
3 stars out of 5 Eh, go see it if you want to. Stuff blows up, people fly around. I expected a little more but, dashed hopes and I are dear old friends. The thing is, I thought that first Avengers movie was pretty great. Instead of the doom-and-gloom, muted palate of so many recent […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 5/5/15
EPISODE #179: VIN SCELSA TRIBUTE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Ramones — “It’s Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)” Vin Scelsa — Intro to Dion Dion — “King of the New York Streets” Lucinda Williams — “Six Blocks Away” Bob Hillman — “Everyone’s an Actor in New York” Arthur Alexander […]
Thank You, Vin Scelsa
Am listening right now to Vin Scelsa do his last radio show ever, on WFUV. In the summer of 1990 I was a college intern at Scholastic, living in the NYU dorm the Brittany at 10th and Broadway in Manhattan. It was a two-person room but I never did get assigned a roommate. At some […]
Little City Books in Hoboken
Very excited to have a new independent bookstore in Hoboken. (Now I just have to write some books.) Here’s a short article I wrote for hMAG covering Little City Book’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Poetry Review: ‘Twine’ by David Koehn
4 stars out of 5 Click to purchase David Koehn had great hair. It’s not the only thing I remember about him. We were in a fiction workshop together in college (Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh). He was a year older. David was a sharp writer, and was helpful, thoughtful, and supportive in regards to […]
Ask Jack: Self-Reviews, Downtime Projects, and Job of the Week
In this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs advice column: Do you have to fill out your own performance appraisal at work? Plus, is it OK to work on personal projects during downtime on the job?
My Internet Radio Playlist, 4/28/15
EPISODE #178: BALTIMORE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Charlie Poole — “Baltimore Fire” The Extra Glenns — “Baltimore” Spiral Jetty — “Baltimore” Matthew Sweet — “Baltimore” Gram Parsons — “Streets of Baltimore” Elliott Smith — “Riot Coming” The Mekons — “Never Been in a Riot” The Clash — “White Riot” Sonic Youth — “Teenage […]
Bakery Door Haiku
Benny, left message on the machine about rolls and where to get them One-syllable edit. Dom’s Bakery Grand, 506 Grand St., Hoboken, NJ, 4/26/15
Jack Silbert, curator