Saturday night The Killers invade the DFW for a show at the Irving Music Factory. The Killers are my 4th-favorite band of all-time, mainly because of the time period of their rise to prominence. The current state of The Killers is a little questionable. They’ve basically admitted that they aren’t The Killers of old. The […]
Weezer and Muse and oh no what have I done
CHAPTER ONE: WEEZER I still remember the first time I heard Weezer. I was 14 years old and my friend Brian put on the Blue Album while we played Nintendo at his house. To set the scene: we lived in an extremely rural area of Texas in this pre-internet era, and neither of our households […]
The Guy Who Taught Me to Fight (by Tony Barnette)
This here? This is Randy. He’s my brother: a tall, skinny, goofy dude. He’s my blood brother. We played together as we grew up. He got me in and out of trouble as we navigated our teens. I went to college to play ball. Randy went to culinary school to put his art into food. As […]
Dark Clay
This is a story I’ve told before. I’ve told this story hundreds of times, in fact. I used to tell it every time I got on stage, because I needed to tell it. But I don’t think I’ve told it since I stopped playing music, and I need to tell it again, for reasons which […]
ANNOUNCEMENT! It’s Football Time at the Upset
Yeah, I know. This is the Writer’s Room. No sports, right? But we couldn’t put this in the “Cowboys” section because, well, there isn’t one. Not yet. That’s what we’re here to talk about, actually. It was always our intention to bring Cowboys coverage to The Upset. Josh Hamilton was ineloquent when he said it, […]
Community Post: Your 2017
Nothing noteworthy has happened in Rangers world in the last few days. I’m grateful for that; it has been nice not to have to panic-leave any family gatherings to go write up a trade or a free-agent signing. But that also means we don’t have many baseball updates for you. There is one major announcement […]