Comments on: Gary Benchley, Rock Star

By: Baby Got Books » Rock On

Baby Got Books » Rock On — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:11:55 +0000

[...] Now I’m off to read the DJ’s post. [...]

By: Shaft

Shaft — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:36:55 +0000

Great post, Mr. DJ. I purposely didn’t get into the details of Gary’s story on my post because I was certain you would have and I didn’t want to overload our readers.

By: Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » Shopping in the “YA” Aisle

Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » Shopping in the “YA” Aisle — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:00:56 +0000

[...] There are two new books that are being marketed to the “Young Adult” market that I am eager to read, and both have been getting rave reviews from actual adults. This is entirely in keeping with one of the recently discussed tenets of the “alterna-parenting” meme, namely, refusing to grow up. The first book is King Dork by Frank Portman. True alterna-parents will, of course, remember Frank Portman as the singer of the punk outfit, The Mr. T Experience. King Dork is the story of a nerdy high schooler who is bumping along through life until he stumbles across his father’s copy of the Catcher in the Rye. This most usual of high school discoveries leads to the very unusual discovery of: …several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries involving dead people, naked people, fake people, ESP, blood, a secret code, guitars, monks, witchcraft, the Bible, girls, the Crusades, a devil head, and rock and roll. [...]

By: Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » A Long Way Down

Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » A Long Way Down — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:44:55 +0000

[...] I’m now halfway through Gary Benchley, Rock Star, and I’m digging it plenty. I’ve purposely avoided reading the DJ’s post on it so that I can read the book and post on it with a clean slate. More to come. [...]

By: Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » I’m kind of awesome

Baby Got Books » Blog Archive » I’m kind of awesome — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:49:03 +0000

[...] You may not have known that about me. We had a near record number of hits at the end of last week, and I wasn’t sure why. It turns out that The Morning News linked to my Gary Benchley post with the headline: Gestalt of Gary Benchley, nouveau hipster parents, and Neal Pollack. That’s right, “gestalt”. But wait, there’s more. Here’s me on the match-up of Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love vs. Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in The Morning News’ Tournament of Books, to be judged by Jessa Krispin of Bookslut: …I predict that she will hate them both. Gambling Tip: She will pick Krauss because she hates Foer more. [...]

By: Nitro Nicole

Nitro Nicole — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:07:12 +0000

I read that New York magazine article last night on my train ride home and was actually going to send it to you this morning since I knew you would find it completely relevant. The ridiculous part though is that all these grups are “sticking it to the man” yet buying the $400 jeans – explain that to me?

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:36:23 +0000

Wow, you get requests. I am merely allowed to play music that I enjoy. It helps if I also dance.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:00:23 +0000

Dr J’s 3-year old has begun requesting “Daddy’s loud music” while in Daddy’s car. This is a cd that DJ Cayenne burned for Dr J–the Pixies Live at the Fox. Ain’t a damn thing wrong with that.