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  • Rockin' round the clock in Cleveland

     

    I'm not a huge fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Shhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone. You're not really supposed to say that around here.

     

    I don't like touring the Rock Hall all that much because it's kinda boring in there. I mean, really, how many different Jim Morrison pantsuits or pictures of Pink Floyd can I look at? (Although I do like The Wall exhibit with the stuffed dude sitting in his chair watching Pink Floyd on TV.) Plus it's another structure that separates us from the lakefront almost everywhere between Edgewater Park and Lake County.

     

    I do like the Rock Hall concept, though. It brings concerts into Cleveland throughout the year, including a free series once a week throughout the summer. It sponsors lectures and panel discussions. It's Landmark Series designates different sites around the country as rock-and-roll landmarks. And,about once a decade we actually get to play host to ...

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  • Butch Day

     

    It's Butch Walker Day.

     

    What Butch Walker Day consists of:

    * Pure awesomeness

    * Total joy

    * Greatness

    * Fun, fun, fun

    * Very little sleep

     

    Yes, tonight at The Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights, Butch Walker makes his return to Cleveland after nearly two years away. I've been to just about every Butch show that's come through town the last six years or so. There was the one at the House of Blues a few years ago where Butch came out into the crowd with only his acoustic guitar and hushed the crowd and got them to sit down all around them while playing a soft song. There was the one at The Cambridge Room which my friends and I made the rookie mistake of not buying tickets before the show sold out, yet still managed to sneak in. There was the one where he opened ...

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  • What, meh worry?

     

    I learned something new the other day. I learned that "meh" is now an official word. I learned this when someone asked me what I thought of the new U2 CD, "No Line on the Horizon". I learned this when I told her, "meh". I learned this when she asked, "What does 'meh' mean?' I learned this when I looked up the definition of "meh" on the Internet and found out that the Collins English Dictionary added "meh" to its upcoming 30th anniversary edition.

     

    For those of you who don't know, "meh" joined the mainstream thanks to The Simpsons, notably when Lisa and Bart responded with it when Homer offered to take them to a theme park. They preferred to watch television. It snowballed from there. And now it's in the dictionary.

     

    So now there's a couple ways to find out what "meh" means. One, look ...

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