Yes, it has been a while, hasn’t it? Well, we here in the Grotto are not immune to the vagaries and trip-ups the world places before us. Thus it is necessary – imperative, really – to eke (eek!) out a … Continue reading →

It’s Tuesday on the late A.M. side, folks; hungover as hell, I am thus completing a month of sitting shivah for recent passings of pop music figures greatly admired and grudgingly respected, in that order. I’m presently bending my lobes … Continue reading →

I am thoroughly gutted, as Deb’s countryfolk would say, about the sudden passing, on St. Pat’s Day, of the awesome, inscrutable, infuriating, arrogant, trashy, bootyshaking, hearttugging, prodigious, forward-minded, power pop auteur and (as he wanted to be known on his … Continue reading →

Thanks to that service that places the cute little red envelopes in our mailbox, I’ve been regularly soaking up much celluloid as of late. One of our latest viewings was of an animated film called 9, the debut of recent … Continue reading →

So then, Groundhog Day has been and gone, that plucky little creature having emerged from his Pennsylvanian hidey-hole to do his bit for another year. There was an equally anticipated surfacing down in Southern Cali last Tuesday as well. Didn’t … Continue reading →

Thought I’d pass this link along: an astonishing and quite validating series starting up on BBC Radio about the history of fanzines. Continue reading →