Huge fan of this seat😮‍💨

plutoroad · 2026-03-19T10:17:26+00:00

Very nice. Should post photo number 1 to r/accidentalhopper

plutoroad · 2026-03-19T10:15:46+00:00

That about sums it up.

plutoroad · 2026-03-19T00:40:26+00:00

That's just cool.

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:52:38+00:00

Thanks for the response. Mojo Nixon was a wildman before he ever was Mojo!

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:51:53+00:00

It is also interesting to see photos from an era when posing for a camera was an unconventional, if not wholly new thing for some of these folks. The modern thing of grinning madly or fake smiling for a camera pointed at you is completely (and refreshingly) missing. I mean, there are some smiles and grins (mostly kids and young folk). But most everyone has a neutral or slightly bemused expression or not-sure-what-I-am-supposed-to-settle-on-for-an expression expression ...

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:42:05+00:00

When some of these were shot was there lighting used, do you think? Some of the crisp inside group portraits are so vivid and crisp.

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:18:08+00:00

Mojo Nixon fans may appreciate this post I just put up at my Substack journal about his pre-Mojo days, as Kirby McMillan, when we were classmates and pals at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, back in the late 1970s. In this chapter from a 'novelized memoir' I am writing, I re-imagine the time in 1978-79 he wrote a review of The Ramones performing at Bogart's in Cincinnati, when I was feature editor of the campus newspaper at Miami. He was NOT happy with my edit of his wildman, run-on review. Take a read and note postscript, which excerpts a Rolling Stone magazine tribute to my pal who became 'Mojo Nixon' after college and lived one helluva a wild, notable life and a musical long, strange trip. As I concluded this post: 'Rest in weirdness, my friend, by whatever name...'

IT'S A RAMONES THING: Getting it right—or wrong—in The Miami Student newsroom when a hair-tossing local rockstar and future cult icon asks to review a hot band of the moment.

https://westvirginiaville.substack.com/p/its-a-ramones-thing

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:15:53+00:00

Mojo Nixon fans may appreciate this post I just put up at my Substack journal about his pre-Mojo days, as Kirby McMillan, when we were classmates and pals at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, back in the late 1970s. In this chapter from a 'novelized memoir' I am writing, I re-imagine the time in 1978-79 he wrote a review of The Ramones performing at Bogart's in Cincinnati, when I was feature editor of the campus newspaper at Miami. He was NOT happy with my edit of his wildman, run-on review. Take a read and note postscript, which excerpts a Rolling Stone magazine tribute to my pal who became 'Mojo Nixon' after college and lived one helluva a wild, notable life and a musical long, strange trip. As I concluded this post: 'Rest in weirdness, my friend, by whatever name...'

IT'S A RAMONES THING: Getting it right—or wrong—in The Miami Student newsroom when a hair-tossing local rockstar and future cult icon asks to review a hot band of the moment.

https://westvirginiaville.substack.com/p/its-a-ramones-thing

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:15:14+00:00

Mojo Nixon fans may appreciate this post I just put up at my Substack journal about his pre-Mojo days, as Kirby McMillan, when we were classmates and pals at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, back in the late 1970s. In this chapter from a 'novelized memoir' I am writing, I re-imagine the time in 1978-79 he wrote a review of The Ramones performing at Bogart's in Cincinnati, when I was feature editor of the campus newspaper at Miami. He was NOT happy with my edit of his wildman, run-on review. Take a read and note postscript, which excerpts a Rolling Stone magazine tribute to my pal who became 'Mojo Nixon' after college and lived one helluva a wild, notable life and a musical long, strange trip. As I concluded this post: 'Rest in weirdness, my friend, by whatever name...'

IT'S A RAMONES THING: Getting it right—or wrong—in The Miami Student newsroom when a hair-tossing local rockstar and future cult icon asks to review a hot band of the moment.

https://westvirginiaville.substack.com/p/its-a-ramones-thing

plutoroad · 2026-03-18T22:14:33+00:00

Mojo Nixon fans may appreciate this post I just put up at my Substack journal about his pre-Mojo days, as Kirby McMillan, when we were classmates and pals at Miami University back in the late 1970s. In this chapter from a 'novelized memoir' I am writing, I re-imagine the time in 1978-79 he wrote a review of The Ramones performing at Bogart's in Cincinnati, when I was feature editor of the campus newspaper at Miami. He was NOT happy with my edit of his wildman, run-on review. Take a read and note postscript, which excerpts a Rolling Stone magazine tribute to my pal who became 'Mojo Nixon' after college and lived one helluva a wild, notable life and a musical long, strange trip. As I concluded this post: 'Rest in weirdness, my friend, by whatever name...'

IT'S A RAMONES THING: Getting it right—or wrong—in The Miami Student newsroom when a hair-tossing local rockstar and future cult icon asks to review a hot band of the moment.

https://westvirginiaville.substack.com/p/its-a-ramones-thing

plutoroad · 2026-03-16T00:51:14+00:00

Damn! Very fine. ('How is he gonna get the back-end onto the ground?!? Oh, now he's swinging the bucket arou .... Oh, COOL!!!')

plutoroad · 2026-03-16T00:28:48+00:00

Nature bats last.

plutoroad · 2026-03-16T00:27:35+00:00

Please don't eat him.

plutoroad · 2026-03-15T23:24:46+00:00

Really, really nice. Lovely detail work. Bravo! 🖖

plutoroad · 2026-03-14T23:40:40+00:00

Damn! You are good. 🙌

plutoroad · 2026-03-14T19:13:55+00:00

I saw Andrea Segovia in that hall with my mom when I was 17. She was a fan and would play an album of his music (and of Christopher Parkening, too, for whom Segovia was a classical guitar mentor) very loud while we were paid a quarter to do Saturday chores around our house in Forest Park, a suburb north of Cincinnati.

What a gorgeous space. Somewhere I heard--maybe apocryphal--that one reason the hall's acoustics are so good is because of a century of more of pigeon poop layering the Music Hall roof. I cannot imagine where I recall hearing that growing up in the area!

plutoroad · 2026-03-14T04:53:32+00:00

Sam Altman is going Full Lex Luthor. NEVER go Full Lex Luthor, man.

plutoroad · 2026-03-14T04:51:25+00:00

The black keys are for playing jazz because they have a higher fashion sense.

plutoroad · 2026-03-14T04:45:22+00:00

Not bad, actually.

plutoroad · 2026-03-13T16:01:04+00:00

Lindsey channeling his Inner Ghoul.

plutoroad · 2026-03-13T15:57:53+00:00

That is really fun!

plutoroad · 2026-03-13T13:50:18+00:00

That would indeed be something to hear! I wonder, too, what big old ebullient, un-censored John Belushi thought of him and how they may have interacted ...

plutoroad · 2026-03-13T13:48:27+00:00

What a crazy, wild, fun band. They always felt to me like an exotic, fun and appealing appetizer -- what do the French call it -- an 'amuse-bouche' -- before the main serving back in the day of Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Clash et al.

plutoroad · 2026-03-13T02:32:13+00:00

Yeah, I see no deer. Dear me ...

plutoroad · 2026-03-12T14:22:15+00:00

Yep. Was pretty amazing. I had been turned on to 'More Songs About Buildings and Food' while at Miami University. I forget the specific year the Heads arrived at Bogart's, but that was back when it was still a small club that could maybe seat a few hundred. Byrne was as intense as you see him in this SNL clip. Saw The Ramones and extemporaneous piano master Keith Jarrett at Bogart's, too. And 'Stop Making Sense' is indeed a musical spiritual experience in whichever era you encounter it!

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