In 1981 at the age of 21, I was as uncool to the scene as I am now at 54, when my junior high friend Tom Carlson turned me on to The Replacements. We were…
Browsing Category Books
A little bit of self-pimpage
I don’t do this very often. But I think some of you Westernerds should head over to MN Reads to check out my review of Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked. Have you read it? Will you…
Celebrate Let it Be’s 25th Anniversary at First Ave.
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Let It Be and the paperback release of The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 27th at First Ave. Tickets are $6 in advance…
I thought y’all might dig the inscription on this book
I saw Arthur Phillips, author of the fan-fucking-tastic The Song is You read last night. Y’all should get the book, you’ll love it. It’s about Rock & Roll and fandom and what music means to…
Chris Mars signing his artbook at Magers & Quinn on Tuesday
Chris Mars will be signing his fabulous book Tolerance at Magers & Quinn (3038 Hennepin Ave. South, Minneapolis) at 8 p.m. on Tuesday (as in the day after tomorrow) December 16th. As I mentioned before,…
Paul Westerberg talks about death
Late last night I got an e-mail from Graeme Thomson author of I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, As Related in…
Reminder: Chris Mars’ book-signing in Culver City, CA tomorrow
My copy of Tolerance: The Art of Chris Mars arrived (thanks to the fine folks at Lee Joseph Publicity) yesterday. Let me tell you folks, it’s a beautiful book. From page one, it’s awesome. I…
Chris Mars book signing September 13 in Culver City, California
Okay, I don’t do this often, because it’s just not my bag. But I got a press release earlier this week that caught my eye. Mostly because it was about Chris Mars’ new art book…
Three things for a Friday — Most importantly how I’m not Paul Westerberg
Hey Gang, first of all remember how I was telling you the other day to go read David Carr’s The Night of the Gun? Well, I am going to up that another notch and encourage…
The Paul Westerberg Bookclub – The Night of the Gun
I like to pretend that y’all love books as much as I do and that when I suggest ‘mats-esque books you kind of dig that, even if you don’t read them. Please do not disabuse…