History, Take Two

SGMblogger has the goods on the origins of SN’s vicious response to AMGS about copyright infringement. Take a look. SGM’s point about the unethics of […]

Release me (I of II)

A post over at the sogo message boards brings up a subject I have been talking a lot about with a friend recently (the timing of releasing singles to […]

The $64,000 question (II of II)

Why would a record company decide to kneecap a popular song whose popularity continues to grow by shifting attention to the next new thing? Hard to say, unless you’re the record exec making the call […]

Latest addition

Miss Elaineous (very clever) sent me an email last night announcing her new sg blog. As always with new blogs, it’s difficult to get a read on anybody’s […]

Back on the stump (I of III)

I’ve received a few emails over the past several days from readers getting turned off by the high-octane political rhetoric from sg ifgures, a subject I have written […]

Things words can do (II of III)

The Saddelbackers stuff ought to look and sound familiar to you in its form and content: It’s a formulaic style of political stumping that the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition perfected ages ago. The […]

On a high-horse - that means me, too, I guess (III of III)

And then along comes Scott Fowler and forwards “Pastor Rick On Politics” to thousands of more folks online. Hard to see how Fowler could really think letters like this are the kind of thing that […]

Knight in tarnished armor?

The SN has (wisely, I think) chosen to get out in front of what might end up being a really ugly mess with this Adam Knight character. See the SN’s statement here. […]

You shouldn’t be surprised by now

Another two additions to the sg blogosphere: biblio’s blog and meblogsg. Not really enough there yet to tell what kinda site either the bibliogger or […]

Pseudo-anonymous it is

The metablogger has “identified” itself as owned by Southern Spin, the Unthanks’ promotion company. Is this anonymous or not? Insofar as […]

Steppin’ Out of work

The work I had intended to do this morning got put on hold unexpectedly, so here I sit with the Hopper’s Steppin’ Out in the player. Here’s a fine example of a solid project built […]

Mea culpa

Apologies, especially to Tracey Phillips, for having rather stupidly and unintentionally dabbled in genetic engineering for a few hours earlier this evening. Everything’s all properly gendered again.

The Ruppes: There’s Something in the Air

The Ruppes
Something in the Air
Spring Hill, 2004
posted October 28, 2004 4:01 PM
Back when I wrote my rediscovery of the Ruppes Seasons […]

About those pesky names

I was hoping for some clarification on the whole issue of who exactly is behind the sgblognews before writing about it. But having gotten the runaround from the person answering the sgblognews email when I […]

Critical speaking, in a duel

My review of the Ruppes’ latest project, Something in the Air, is up … with a twist. Because I wanted to like the project a great deal more than I actually do in reality, I […]

Deeper into the worm hole

Deon Unthank just unveiled sgblognews.com, a site that I gather is trying to be something of a meta-site for sg-related blogs/news sites. My first response is (like reader JH), why didn’t I […]

Thee in thy great wisdom didst create Google

Emails and info have all but poured in about the “odd” Adam Knight post over at sogospelnews. From the many tales of Knight’s execrable behavior, this […]

Jerry, Jerry, quite contrary

So it looks like Maurice Templeton and Jerry Kirksey have sent Jerry’s kid Kenneth out to do some cease-and-desist work for the SN against the motley bunch over at AMGS, as musicscribe […]

Lord it STILL Hurts (I of II)

My thoughts on “Lord it Hurts” brought some fascinating, first-rate replies from readers that I want to share and elaborate on. The best by far is from TK, who points out […]

Word plays (II of II)

I want to offer a slightly more complicated and perhaps obtusely academic interpretation of that key phrase itself “Lord, it hurts, but you’re still God” as a way of continuing the conversation TK so brilliantly […]