'Bred Crumbs
07.09.02
I briefly thought I'd again been victimized by a format change when I got in the car and to my shock the radio, tuned by default to the new dance station, played "Hard to Say I'm Sorry," by Chicago in its sad latter years. But then an electro-beat throbbed out of the background, and I learned to my relief that the squishy ballad had gotten a bizarre remix.
Which gives me an excuse to make a long, long overdue link to my friend Becky's website, which among its nifty features includes a thoughtful, thorough review of Chicago albums during the band's great, Roman-numeraled, pre-schmaltz years.
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The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has suspended a minister for participating in an interfaith service for the families of Sept. 11 victims. And thus, faith-based hatred piles another stone onto the new American temple of religious intolerance.
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Depressed and looking for a reason to end it? Comedy Central gives you one tomorrow night: two and a half hours of Crank Yankers. Odds are you'll only be able to endure five minutes before you're ready to walk into the light.*
07.08.02
Star Wars Episode I and II only suck all the more once you find out that Spielberg might have directed one of them if Lucas weren't so damned possessive. Clearly, Lucas won't do the one thing that this series so badly needs and that surely, we see now, saved The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi: let someone else handle them. All the more reason to skip Episode III. And this time I mean it.
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