MACON, Georgia — I used to love going to see concerts. Unfortunately, it’s the “going” part of that statement that grew tiresome as I got older. (Cue “OK, boomer” comments.) For my first concert at 16 years old, I had to drive my little stick shift for more than an hour through the rain to catch the Beastie Boys at Columbus’ old, pitiful Municipal Auditorium — only to have them kicked off the stage by authorities late in the show. During my 14 years living and working in Columbus, I was fortunate enough to catch up and coming acts like […]
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The surest sign yet that America is messed up
People who think America has crossed the Rubicon into permanent dysfunction and division point to such things as a broken two-party system, money in politics, out-of-control debt, gender identity and cartoon mice as prime examples to support their opinion. Granted, the folks who are most worried about gender identity and which bathroom trans people use also are the people who just read my first sentence and are telling somebody, “Yeah, I got me one of dem Rubicon cubes back in the ’80s. Only way I could solve it was with a screwdriver!” “I heered that!” Unfortunately, I, too, now believe […]