Söccer Röcker

Who doesn’t? You get that feeling that you know what’s really going in the world and “the civilians” don’t. Conspiracy theories are older thanTony Meola’s Weight Watchers’ membership for a reason. They spread, they get digested into the culture, they become something your older brother tells you about when he thinks you’re old enough. As long as you don’t really believe Radio Shack is asking you personal information to use later when they kidnap and build a moon base for the elite, you’re ok.

Can we get a Revs DP in here?

Let me … Continue Reading

The U.S. Open Cup is a rarity in the soccer scene in this country. It’s a tournament with rich history (something we’re short on with soccer here) that goes all the way back to 1912 when Sir Thomas Dewar bequeathed a trophy to spur interest in the sport on this side of The Pond. The tournament has survived leagues coming and going. It is one of the oldest knock-out domestic cups in all of world soccer. New England, in particular, has a big role in the history of the Cup with legendary teams like the Fall River … Continue Reading

Have you folks seen the Dish Network commercials with John Michael Higgins (Marty from “Evan Almighty” or the voice of Mentok The Mindtaker on “Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law” for my Adult Swim friends) as the stupid cable company executive? The one who addresses problems like angry customers with ideas like just getting new customers or distracting customers with cheerleaders? They’re funny to a degree. Oh, har har, nobody’s company is run by people that disconnected right?

Uhm, right. Except this year we’ve discovered that the Revolution are being run by people who’s proclamations scarily … Continue Reading

author’s note: This piece originally appeared as part of Mr. Fran Harrington’s final for his art school degree and is reprinted here with his kind permission. Also because I wanted more people than just his professors to read it.

In the middle of the seventh decade of the 20th century, those vaunted Seventies, young people in the Western World rose up against the established cocaine-and-caviar cruise control rock and roll was set on and began a movement later known worldwide as punk rock. In it’s heyday “punks” were scoffed at, attacked in the street, their records banned, their … Continue Reading