Although I never met my grandfather, after inheriting a couple of boxes full of his old LPs it’s clear that a steady diet of Chet Atkins, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, and the like kept that hard drinking, hand-rolled cigarette smoking, coalmine working-man alive. While all you assholes in Nashville who gave birth […]
Drag the River – The Reign of the Underdog
photo: carrie wait The Gipper. Rudy. Charlie Brown. Ben Stiller’s character in all of his movies. Ashlee Simpson. Tommy Lee as a solo artist. The other white meat. We all love a good underdog (unless it involves the live action, voice-animated motion picture version of everyone’s favorite superhero canine … then it’s just plain blasphemy, […]