Secrets of the City

BAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
god that guy is such a fucking tool.

apparently news travels quite slow up in Alaska (3 year to be exact).

good on Reveille for cutting that guy loose, he just made them look bad

Apparently he could have used an eighth grader to double check his facts.

Let us all bid a sad farewell to Zombie Johnny Ramone.

And the font is almost legible.

This guy could benefit from a 6th grad-level editor. Yikes.

Does Alaska have running water yet?

Also, is this completely on his MySpace blog? Do I have this correct?

Also, is this completely on his MySpace blog? Do I have this correct?

All 14,000 words.

The font on his main profile is similar to those phones with the giant buttons for people who can’t see well, yet the font in his blog entries is so small I cried a little. Where’s the happy medium, Tom? And seriously, buy a domain.

BFY
(the Y is for “yawn”)

RIP Johnny Ramone

that aside, i don’t know about you, but regarding the “Treehouse Debacle”, letting a 22 year old college kid do your books for you in his college dorm room 45 miles away unsupervised for almost 9 months seems like bad business management to me, call me crazy.

Johnny Ramone . . . is . . . . is . . . . dead?

so that tent saw plenty of good-time action betwixt myself and several highly attractive females I met in my drunken ramblings who were probably more impressed that I shaved and showered daily and actually had toilet paper in my tent than taken by my absolutely smashing good looks- that’s a joke, kids- and inimitable charm. I should’ve known though, when the group of a dozen or so lone wolf Harley Riders I spent the summer being neighbors with tore their tents down one night and disappeared without a word. I was more worried about where I’d have to start finding my next bag of herbs than I was about why they’d hit the road so quickly, anyway.

says Jim Anchower

Just put him in a wheelchair, get him on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before Tom goes insane
He can’t control his fingers he can’t control his brain
Oh no no no no no

lmao.

grote for the win

I just hope Joey and Dee Dee are OK.

The Ramones broke up?

Here’s to the end of faint memories of a yearning for an era. On a good night, (which meant any night they found some speed to mix with their normal diet of CNS depressants), they could take their basic three-chord sound and make it sound like three-and-a-half, or sometimes even four, chords, all at a volume that would make your beer go flat in seven seconds.

You know time is passing when your rebel-youth icons are kicking from prostate cancer, heart attacks, and brain cancer. In a just world, they’d die in bed from coke-induced arrhythmia.

some of them do just refuse to die.

Iggy’s…. not…. dead?

Now I feel young.

Iggy I expected to look like Keith Richard’s old dead grandfather, but is that David J of the NYD’s? And more currently a/k/a Buster Poindexter?

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Can’t be.

yes, it’s david johansen. went from “Too Much Too Soon” to “Tranny Granny”

But this was him just . . . just . . . a few years ago:
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That’s what it would look like if Lou Reed and Elton John were spliced together.

Iggy looks like “Sarah Jessica Parker in 50 years”

David J looks like a chimp that they put a wig on

leave Tom ALONE. Can’t you all see that he’s been through a LOT?!!?!?!?

If Lou Reed were spliced with Elton John, it would give new meaning to “I’m Waiting for the Man”

I must applaud the speed with which the music community has come together to mourn Johnny Ramone’s passing. I mean, the guy’s only been gone two days and he already has a statue.

Is it because they’re those “Minnesota Nice” kinda peeps who just (affect hipster-style vocal patterns here) “Like, don’t want to be involved in any controversy, man?”

the call of the wild hipster? or perhaps an ’80s surfer. they’re so hard to tell apart.

“I mean, the guy’s only been gone two days and he already has a statue.“

Uh, no, dude, that IS Johnny. That’s why it took so long to decide he was dead.

Does anybody know any more about the Treehouse issues? What’s really going on there?

Ditto MunsingW’s request.

That blog entry was pretty much incomprehensible.

I can’t believe that the Reveille folks took Tom Hallett along with them in the first place. They’re well rid of him. Reading his columns is like putting a high-pressure water hose into your eye. And the Johnny Ramone thing is so perfectly botched that it’s almost a work of art. But he’s right that “what the hell is going on between Treehouse Records and Ian Anderson” is newsworthy.

What would you rather do, stick your head in a boiling pot of asphalt for one hour or read Hallett’s blog entry?

R.I.P Johnny Ramone, 1948 – 2007… classic! He’s even got it in his sig line…

Hallett actually wrote about Johnny Ramon’s death when it happened. I guess he forgot.

Phillip,

the Treehouse vs. Ian Anderson thing MIGHT have been newsworthy when it actually happened…

Back in JULY…

maybe it is “newsworthy”, but why not contact the Strib, PP, or City Pages, instead of an up and coming online only magazine with a pretty small readership at this point.

Trehus whined constantly to us on the Modern Radio message board about it until the mods and other members got sick and tired of it. i support Mark, but he’s gone about this thing all wrong so far. if he truly has as good of case as he says he claims, he should have already taken Ian’s ass to court, but methinks he realizes that legally he doesn’t have that great of a case.

From a few lawyer friends i’ve talked to about the issue, what Ian has been accused of, while shady, isn’t illegal. he’s accused of overcharging for his work, which is something that as a business manager, Trehus is in charge of taking care of (and should have noticed long before 9 months).

Isn’t Ian Anderson the flautist/singer in Jethro Tull?

Kevin,

Strike three then, I guess.

Looks like Mr. Hallett has backpedaled and amended his column with the following statement at the beginning:

NOTE: Apparently, I didn’t make clear that I’m mourning Johnny Ramones loss in retrospect here in these pages, so please keep in mind that I realize Johnny’s actual passing happened several years ago and that, despite appearances, I am not insane or caught in some kind of time-warp. Sorry for any misunderstandings- thanks to Stevie “Wonder” B. for catching this error when he did!! I’m still playing a live Ramones gig from ‘76 tonight at my DJ gig in honor of Johnny, and I plan on cranking it to “11.” I hope you all do/have done the same. Hey Ho- Let’s Go!!

That’s just weird. In a reply to a comment further down the page (which I guess you can’t edit) he clearly signs it RIP – JOHNNY RAMONE 19482007. And there’s really no mistaking what he meant when he ORIGINALLY wrote this: “I’m draggin’ ass today because this past weekend we lost the third founding member of The Ramones in a decade. Johnny, King Of The Three Chord (and sometimes two) Guitars, passed away on Sat., 9/15.”

This is like some Alberto Gonzales-level stuff.

I didn’t think he was insane or caught in a tame warp. I just thought he was an idiot.