THE OPERATIC BAR BAND GENRE:

A subgenre that occurred to me when I was thinking to myself that The Hold Steady plays in the Springsteen genre, and then wondering well what would one call the Springsteen genre?

(This has been a draft here in Blogger for weeks that I am only now offering up to take its place in the rich tapestry of Internet public opinionz. Again--in a E Street mood.)

DEPT. OF FOUND INTERNET OBJECTS, ASBURY PARK DIVISION:

Interview from 1985 with early E Streeter Suki Lahav. She's probably best known for the violin part on Jungleland. Yes--I am on a Springsteen kick. (Also clearing out an open tab.)

HOW NOW YELLER EUROCRAT:

Wrestling was dropped from the Olympics because it didn't have friends in the right places. That's it. End of line, as the Master Control Program would say. And this: "FILA didn't think its sport was at risk, so it waged virtually no campaign to save itself." Wrestling--perhaps THE sport that harkens back to the ancient Olympic times, when the Greeks famously wrassled sans any clothing--should never, even have to justify itself to anyone, and definitely not to a pack of loathsome IOC aristocrats. What bullshit.

...you can also see this as the expression of the IOC's anti-Americanism, as we have the all-time medal count in wrestling and the last two sports cut--baseball and softball--were also American as spam musubi, but that's more of a reach, in my opinion.

DEPT. OF E-MAIL MAILING LIST TITLES THAT WILL CONVINCE ME TO NOT DELETE THEM UNREAD:

It's the Bacevich article that makes the More Flan/Less Ayn argument. By the way, AmConMag, you need a tablet version in the Play store, yo.

...there's an AmCon Center For Public Transportation? I am soooo out of the loop.