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History Music

31 years ago today: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

On November 10, 1975, the most famous maritime disaster in Great Lakes history occurred, when the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior while trying to make it to Whitefish Bay in a gale, with the loss of 29 lives. Having grown up in the Detroit area, I still remember it almost as though […]

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Entertainment/culture Music Politics

Election Day!

The polls are now open where I live. Don’t forget to get out there and vote! Too bad we don’t have a candidate like the one in the video to vote for. At least he’s honest. Heck, if any candidate ran a campaign like the one in the video above, I might even vote for […]

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Entertainment/culture Music

Sunday tune

I’ve been talking up My Chemical Romance’s Welcome to the Black Parade as an album that takes punk, glam, Goth, and sprinkles in a touch of Queen here and there like seasoning to produce an irresistable, sometimes over-the-top, album full of theatricality, bombast, and anthemic choruses that make you want to sing along. Check out […]

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Music

Halloween video madness, part 4

Back to Alice Cooper:

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Music

Halloween video madness, part 3 (More braaaaiiinnns!)

No Alice Cooper this time. Instead, given that this is the blog that conceived of the Hitler Zombie, how could I not post a clip involving an actual cinematic brain-eating zombie on Halloween? (Warning: In the interest of full disclosure, this clip contains a brief and poorly lit topless shot and a couple of uses […]