Note to the Tampa Bay Times: The online archives shouldn’t be ad-free
The Tampa Bay Times has tens of thousands of articles, some mundane news and some as feature reading, on its former site domain. SPTimes.com represented...
Lyrical verse, the music business and me on SongBay
I’m trying a new avenue, ladies and gentlemen. I’ve long had poetry and lyrical verse posted online, but I’ve never really pushed myself into music....
Checks and balances and the lack there of; an open letter to Congressman Gus Bilirakis
To tthe Honorable Representative Gus Bilirakis, It’s too easy for words posed toward one’s own elected congressional representative to be brushed off or outright dismissed...
Music’s success goes through the fans
I have this habit of promoting music that I’ve crossed from one indie station or another. “Promoting” means sharing songs on one form of social...
The Identity Tampa Bay launches as a sports and entertainment hub for the Tampa Bay region
Another media hub online for the Tampa Bay area has launched. Seeing it’s a newborn, it’s going to take a while before it takes a...
A note on Tampa Bay sports and the playoffs
Though it literally does not play out like this: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers make the playoffs on average less than once every four seasons of...
Something familiar and Fab lurks with Blac Rabbit
Two gentlemen singing in harmony to create a fantastic melody in a song titled “Eight Days a Week”. That was John Lennon and Paul McCartney,...
Tomas Fornstedt — Outer Space
Back in January, I posted a song by Tomas Fornstedt here because I had been listening to it for a year after crossing it on...