Thunder Pie | Tranquilaria: Mental Health Mini-Essays
The High Cost of Wiping Out All the Dugout Smokers
Back in the 1970s and the 1980s, which is where I come from, no one gave a shit about your...
Thunder Pie | Ron To Parts
“This is my child, he said.
I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair.
That is my job.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I began to notice things in the summer...
Thunder Pie | Cranberries Like A Human Heart On Glass
At the school meeting, in the conference room, I begin to drift. In and out of the things being said, I cling to my duties as a modern dad...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | You’ve Changed, Man
What songs come to mind when I say the names Bob Seger and Steve Miller? Old Time Rock & Roll and The Joker? Night Moves and Abracadabra? Against The...
Thunder Pie | Scroll Of Jawns: Episode 2
jawn /jôn/ noun - (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Can’t Go Wrong
Last year I reached out to my social media friends for help filling a gap in my record collection. I didn't own any Sun Ra albums, and had no...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | What You Talkin’ ’Bout, Willis?
I grew up a fan of Elton John, and while most people just love to blather on about what a brilliant lyricist Bernie Taupin is, I've always found his...
Thunder Pie | Hiking With The Heartbeat Kid
Easter morning, me and Arle go on a hike. Once the kids get picked up for a few hours, we have this rare open stretch, so she says let’s...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Blood Harmony
Definition: Blood Harmony is an English expression meaning the extra special sound that siblings make when they sing together.
No list of "hilarious album covers" is complete without Satan Is...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Triumphant Triumvirates
You gotta really love a band to shell out for a triple-album. In December, 1976, Wings dropped their colossal three-record live set, Wings Over America. Just in time for...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | I’ve Got Blisters On Me Fingers!
The Beach Boys franchise is a freak show. The band announced a new tour in February which will run right through the end of October. There has not been...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 3: G-L)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Thunder Pie | Raw Power
The past few days have found me wrestling with monsters. Big questions, I mean. Important things to me that maybe don’t add up to much for others but mean...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Any Colour You Like
Just like Jimi Hendrix, Bing Crosby, Meat Loaf, Rod Stewart and Neil Young, I'm colour blind. It's way more common with dudes than ladies — 8% of men have...
Thunder Pie | Our Dead Name
“There is something seriously, terribly wrong with a person if they manage to get to a certain age — cross a lot of bridges; bury a lot of friends...
