Nursing a medicinal Saint Arnold's Elissa draught while casually flipping through Envy, LOM actually saw something that looked interesting: Adam P. Newton's review of the Service Industry's new album, Keep the Babies Warm.
My first thought: why in God's name would a conspicuous-consumption rag like Envy be wasting space in its extremely expensive glossy pages filled with ads for Dior, Momentum BMW, Tovas Five-Star Day Spa and Hair Studio for Women & Men, and Michael Ciaravino ("The Breast D
Photo by aznviolaguyOkay, Ed, if you insist.
We've been lax in our examinations of Ed Shane's monthly Flack Fest, Best in Texas, lately. Let's rectify that.
In the January issue, publisher Shane led off with this sterling bit of advice as the national and world economies fell apart.
"Be careful. I'm one of those people trying to offset the gloom-and-doom headlines with a positive attitude, so let me say this: Happy New Year!"
Wow, with that kind of depth, you have to wonder if Shane was ev
Lonesome Onry and Mean recently stopped wasting good notebook paper writing drafts of articles about Best in Texas Music Magazine. We were perusing the current issue and thinking about how bad it is when it suddenly dawned on us: the environmentally pure thing would be to write a column about it on the issue itself. Another little facet of LOM's continuing attempt at going green, you might say.
When I floated a trial balloon of my new idea at our local watering hole, the usual suspects starte
Trilogy (n.): a set of three works of art that are connected and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.If euthanasia is ever legalized, one method might be to have the doctor read Ed Shane's monthly "Letter From the Publisher" in Best In Texas to the patient. Reading Shane's banalities to a terminal patient would solve any need for expensive medicines. The death certificate would report that the patient had been bored to death.
Shane's latest screed is a 700-wo
