The Rhetorical Situation

The awesome Todd Snider CD, "East Nashville Skyline," was at the center of Harrogate's Big Birthday Musical Haul. This song, ...

Hello all. Unlike Roof Almighty Harrogate believes strongly in straight-up here's a cool song posts. Here's a song Harrogate has li...

On Friday, M Sublimely Wrote the following: I Really Wish that I would wake up tomorrow and find my dissertation finished. That would be a l...

When Harrogate reflects on the relationship between the following glorious drinking song, and the TRS Board Members, his thoughts turn natur...

Megs, here is a side of Waits we did not explore when you guys were down here in Texastown. But you need to get to know this side of him. ...

While getting the ball rolling on the current Retrospective Festival taking place on TRS, oxymoron indicated here that at times, it seemed ...

Not so very long ago a'tall, we had a wondrous thread running in which Contributors indicated what their entrance music would be. Ther...

Harrogate has been meaning to post this for a couple of months, but now seems a good time, given his featuring of Garbage earlier in the wee...

It's been a Springsteen kind of day for Harrogate, as so many turn out to be. "Eyes on the Prize" is one of our most cherishe...

Harrogate rode Pink Floyd hard down the homestretch of this election, and a lot of the songs were dark as hell. It is fitting that their mo...

This was always one of Harrogate's favorite songs by Madge, anyway. Go ahead and make fun of him for it & see if he cares. It's...

In her most recent post on Separation of Spheres, m wonderfully discovers herself as a Bette Davis figure , and ruminates on what it all mea...

It might surprise some Readers (doubtful, but it might), but Harrogate has indeed been infinitely thankful for the existence of this song si...

Damn.

Such a soft touch. How distilled. Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean ...

Wednesday night George W. Bush made his bailout pitch on a prime time, 15 minute address to the nation. Rhetorically it was necessary to tr...

Harrogate is jealous.

And also, because Harrogate will guarantee it. There are Board Members afoot, perhaps several--YEA, perhaps all!!!--who like this song.

Jeralyn at TalkLeft continues to build on her her heroic creds. Unhappy with both Clinton and Obama in the Primary, she sided with Clinton,...

Naomi Klein has for some time had the GOP's number in a way that few public figures have been able to boast. Her ability, moreover, to ...