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Video Fridays: R.I.P., Allan “Sidney Freedman” Arbus
I’m late getting to this, but I’m sad that I’m posting my second obituary in one week. Following my post on Monday on the loss of Richie Havens, I heard the very next day of the death of actor Allan...
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Tweet of the Day: @soulpancake
I gotta say, the more I see of actor Rainn Wilson, the more impressed I am with him. I first discovered Rainn, appearing as Arthur Martin, the quirky/slightly-creepy/yet-endearing intern at the Fisher...
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Q: Are Blogs Dead? A: HELL NO!!!
So, there’s this article out in The New Republic, by Mark Tracy, titled Eulogy for the Blog. And, I have to tell ya, it REALLY bugs me, and it bugs me on several levels. First, unless it’s a thing to...
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Best of Fish & Bicycles: Video Fridays: Long Live Hippies
Originally Published: July 26, 2011 A friend of mine recently tweeted a wonderful YouTube clip (video embedded below) of a joint performance by The Flaming Lips and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic...
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Best of Fish & Bicycles: Phil Ochs: Is it ever ok to give up?
Originally Published: August 9, 2011 I try really hard to keep things positive here at Fish & Bicycles. There are already plenty of blogs and websites out there wailing about how bloody awful...
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Eyecatchers: Fish & Bicycles’s New Look, Via Hans d’Hollosy
My favorite memory from when I first started Fish & Bicycles, back in October 2009, was the outcome of my search for a photo or other image for the header of the blog. All it took was typing “Fish...
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The Dystopia Fetish
Have you ever had one of those experiences where you’ve been quietly tolerating something that really bothers you for a long, long time, but then you suddenly, in a dramatic moment, realize that you...
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Video Fridays: Gas Station Karaoke
Ok, I know that my selection for today’s installment of Video Fridays, a clip from The Tonight Show, has already gone wildly viral. I even know that some controversy has kicked up around it, with some...
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R.I.P., Ray Manzarek
Overshadowed, understandably, by the news Monday of the massive tornado in Oklahoma, was the passing, at the age of 74, of Ray Manzarek, legendary keyboardist for The Doors. I’ve not been the biggest...
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Video Fridays: The Sapphires
It’s been several weeks since I saw the wonderful film, The Sapphires, at Bellingham’s own art house emporium The Pickford Film Center, and I just can’t stop thinking about it. I went into the...
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Rock Beats Paper
Listen, I know that the rules of Rock-Paper-Scissors say that paper beats rock, because paper covers the rock, but if you think of paper as something words are written on, and a large quantity of that...
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R.I.P. Bobby Keys
Oh boy. This is a tough loss. Saxophonist extraordinaire Bobby Keys, dead at 70. If you believe in the magic of rock & roll, which I devoutly do, it isn’t in the individual. I’ve played in bands...
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The Poet Makes Grief Beautiful: Revisited
I just read a terrific column at Salon.com by someone known more for setting words to music, the wonderful singer-songwriter Gillian Welch. The crux of the piece is best explained by Gillian in her...
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Buy Local: Holiday Edition
I’ve mentioned here several times over the years how much I appreciate my adopted hometown of Bellingham, Washington, for its deep commitment to a local living economy, this idea that the whole...
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Video Fridays: Barbershop Sexual Healing
To paraphrase the oft-quoted Most Interesting Man In The World, I don’t always watch TV (no cable and no antenna), but when I see clips on the interwebs, many of my favorites come from Jimmy Fallon,...
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Adventures In Graph Innuendo
Listen, either I’m the biggest pervert in the world, or many, many minds should be blown by the fact that the following graph actually made it past the editors of Forbes.com and onto the interwebs,...
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Plastic-Eating Fungus Revisited: Plastic-Fungus Fusion Food
Back in March 2012, I wrote about some scientists who had discovered a fungus in the jungles of Ecuador, a fungus that can eat plastic. At the time, I applauded the discovery as an exciting possible...
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Video Fridays: Hanukkah Edition
Well, I’m barely keeping my head above the water right now, what with my interfaith family and I simultaneously partaking of both Hanukkah and Christmastime. So, for today’s Video Fridays installment,...
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R.I.P. Joe Cocker
Man, it’s been a brutal December for rock & roll. Joe Cocker, Iconic Rock Singer, Dead at 70 Even if The New York Times insists that the “celebrities die in threes” thing is a myth, I know I wasn’t...
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Happy 2015: Defending Resolutions
Have you noticed that New Year’s resolutions are getting a REALLY bad rap? Around this time last year, many media outlets reported on findings from University of Scranton’s Journal of Clinical...
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