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 […]
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 […]
Dave, from Dad, 1987
Thirty years ago – December 25, 1987 – I got a Christmas gift that wasn’t on my list. No biggie. I knew how handle it. Simple rules of engagement, per the social contract we all agreed to as kids: 1) We got to ask for anything. We could make a long list of those things, […]