Watching the documentary “Some Kind Of Heaven” on Hulu. Nirvana, it’s not. Stepford hell, well….

It’s about time.

Here’s the latest ep of the Music Makes Me High! podcast. I discuss the 1983 Shalamar album The Look and why it is the most important album in the band’s catalog.

We are currently living in the third decade of the 21st century, yet we still have stories like this. Simply chilling.

Brooklyn Park police said Monday that they believe a man intentionally struck his neighbor with his car, killing him and fleeing the scene.

Family members of the victim identified him on social media as Paul Pfeifer.

Police apprehended the driver after they tracked the car to a nearby house later that night, according to Mark Bruley, deputy chief. The department is pursuing homicide charges, which could come as soon as Tuesday.

“We believe at this point, this was an intentional act,” Bruley said.

In a statement, Pfeifer’s husband, Joseph Pfeifer St. James, said “hate is what killed him.” He declined to be interviewed by the Star Tribune.

Just another reason why we have a Pride season. It’s important to celebrate who we are, how far we’ve come, and just how far we have to go … even here in Minnesota.😩

Very good numbers on same-sex marriage in this country.

Sure, it was the epic battle that really wasn’t: Tiffany versus Debbie Gibson. Of course, the latter diva has always reigned supreme in my eyes. Now, she’s getting ready to release new music.

”I always lived for pop music and the radio,” Debbie says now, charming and exuberant as ever. “I still do. I don’t live in the past — I listen to Conan Gray and the Weeknd. I respect the heck out of Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift. I just love a great pop artist who knows how to connect with people on a universal level.”

Her new album comes out August 20th, from Stargirl Records. It includes her new remake of “Lost in Your Eyes,” as a duet with Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block. She and Joey also have a Las Vegas residency coming up in August and September.

Clarence Williams dies.

Back in the podcasting saddle again with episode 9 of Music Makes Me High, in which I discuss Greatest Hits by Sly + The Family Stone. Give it a listen.

I live in Congresswoman McCollum’s district. Upcoming deliberation and her vote on military spending will be closely watched here.

The world’s first man to receive the Covid vaccine dies.

I’m really enjoying the HBO series, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything. The first episode lay the obvious (John Lennon “Imagine”; Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues”) groundwork for some of that year’s most durable musical milestones.

Ahh, take me to Cherry Grove.

Link rot defined, as well as “content drift”, in the scale of archived journalism in the digital age.

President Biden praises Minnesota’s “meeting the moment” on vaccination rates and incentivization for doing so.

Biden earlier Tuesday invited Walz and five other governors from states with high rates of COVID-19 vaccination to discuss their successes and strategies to overcome recent slowdowns in public interest.

Examples in Minnesota included the Saints’ giveaway of ticket vouchers at Tuesday night’s home opener for fans who received their vaccinations at the stadium.

Lake Monster Brewing in St. Paul gave free beer coupons to 141 people who received shots there on Monday night.

Biden congratulated the governors from Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio and Utah for “meeting the moment” with creative incentives for vaccination and maintained that many people simply need easier opportunities. He also called Walz a “stand-up guy” for his many public appearances to encourage people to seek vaccination.

MN is at 64 percent of the 70% vacc rate the governor is requiring to end its mask mandate.

Alt-county star Rodney Crowell preps his next set this July.

Governor Walz:

My message to folks is there’s a lot of good reasons to get vaccinated, but for some of them, you know, if you need another one, go get vaccinated so you’re alive to vote against me in the next election.

I don’t care. I just want to get it done. It’s not assuming these people are hesitant, they’re ideologically opposed.

It’s trying to understand where they’re at, what are the differences.

2020 (2021) Olympiad in peril?

Opioids are fueling a resurgence of HIV in the Twin Cities.

POTUS has announced that it will restore protections for gay and transgender persons.

The Biden administration policy will bring HHS into line with a landmark 6-3 Supreme Court decision last year in a workplace discrimination case, which established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also protect gay and transgender people…The Biden administration action essentially restores the policy established during the Obama years. The Affordable Care Act included a prohibition on sex discrimination in health care but did not include the term “gender identity.” The Obama administration interpreted the law as shielding gay and transgender people as well. It relied on a broad understanding of sex shaped by a person’s inner sense of being male, female, neither or a combination.

Fauci urges more vaccinations.

Top Biden health adviser Anthony Fauci predicted that the country’s coronavirus situation will be dramatically different a year from now if larger proportions of the population are vaccinated.

I believe that we will be about as close to back to normal as we can, and there’s some conditions to that… We’ve got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated. When that happens, the virus doesn’t really have any place to go.

Especially, as the pace of vaccinations slows.

Mr. “Personality” himself, has died.

Aaron Neville says goodbye to music.

Will Facebook reinstate the former POTUS?