Bart Bull

Recovering Vogue Editor
(and Details, and SPIN, and Sounds...)
writer, reporter, critic, skateboarder

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Boris and Natasha; A Savage Journey

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“Boris, dah-link, wake up!  Seat belts must be fascinated!  We land now in Lost Angeles!  Wake up, dah-link!” [Vague sleepy mutteri...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Hiatt Hotel — John Hiatt feature story from SPIN, 1987

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He's late. It's not necessarily his fault, but he's late just the same.  Too late to do anything about it but sit tight in a ca...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Aphorism Number 88; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set

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Anybody can peel a banana once somebody shows you how.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Aphorism No. 87; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set

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Life is not in chronological order.
Monday, October 23, 2017

Aphorism Number 86; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set!

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Let's not invade any place we can't pronounce.

Me too

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I choose, and very actively, to avoid Twitter like the Black Fuckin' Plague.  Like the leper colony of Molokai, or that gnarly one in Ce...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Arizona — Where The Old West Came To Die

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Arizona is where the Old West crawled off to die. Or if not to actually die, at least to establish a cranky early retirement.

Arizona: Copper, Cotton, Citrus, Cattle, and Crazy

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Arizona's first state governor wasn't a Pontiac dealer.  Instead, he was a Zoroastrian. It was the Pontiac dealer — the guy who ca...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Aphorism Number 85; One of Series; Collect the Whole Set

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Life is a pre-existing condition.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Aphorism Number 84; One of a Series; Collect the Whole Set!

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In a world where anything can happen, a lot of things occur.
Monday, August 22, 2016

Aphorism No. 81 — One of a series; Collect the whole set!

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The merrier, the merrier — more or less.
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Luke The Drifter — Hank Williams Blows The Foam Off The River Of Life

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by Bart Bull By 1950, Hank Williams was the biggest thing in country music,  the biggest thing there'd ever been in country music, and...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

No Davy? No Dylan.

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How  Davy  Crockett, Walt Disney, Mitch Miller,  Tom Dooley and the Beverly Hillbillies Conspired To Invent Folk Music (originally publi...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Aphorism No. 80; One of a Series; Collect the whole set!

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

The Once and Future Prince — Prince, and The Time: Oakland Coliseum, Friday, April 1, 1983

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When the Rolling Stones' processional played Los Angeles in the fall of 1981, the opening acts were the J. Geils Band, George Thorogood ...
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