Discovering an author whose writing I like is a real pleasure. When that author is also a Mogger, well, how cool is that!A couple of weeks back, Brendan Halpin (http://mog.com/brendanhalpin/) did a post where he offered to mail a copy of his most recent book, a novel titled "Long Way Back," to Moggers who provided their address, until he ran out of books.I quickly mogmailed him and a few days l...
--- - |- Friday saw a tribute party called 'In Loving Memory of Johnny Ramone,' a charity fund-raiser to honor the late guitarist of the punk-rock legends The Ramones, held at his gravesite in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Fans viewed a concert from 1988 projected onto a mausoleum wall, and also a 1932 cult carnival film 'Freaks,' which is [...] ~~- The Ramones
--- - |- For any of us who grew up listening to rock and roll, air guitar was an integral part of the experience. "Air guitar is inherent to anyone who listens to rock music," says Craig Billmeir of Alameda, while noting that his old roommate's two-year-old begins the air guitar motions whenever a Ramones record is put on. "No one taught her that." Billmeir knows a thing or two about air gu...