MISTER FADED GLORY
I'm a writer and marketing pro based in KC. Welcome to the recap of life: Books, TV, ads, business, marketing, grunge music, sports, and more. Focus never has been my strong suit.
Watch for my first novel, These Monks, a comedy about friendship, frustration, and Des Moines, later this year.
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Category Archives: Grunge
Out of my lucky face
No more ranting about the Cubs. Am currently auditioning other teams to become the Official 2006 Favorite Club of Mr. Faded Glory, which — depending on the Cubs’ administration and/or upcoming (please!) housecleaning — may actually be permanent. I’m leaning … Continue reading
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Grungedown No. 13
13. L7, Pretend We’re Dead. No pretenses today, as the strongest and most classic “riot grrrl” song of the early 1990s enters the grunge countdown. (God, ‘Riot Grrls‘ was a stupid name for a genre. Just when you thought ‘grunge’ … Continue reading
Grungedown
While I was tempted to install Life Wasted at No. 14 with a bullet, I thought that might cheapen the entire countdown. So, after you watch the video, here’s this week’s entry. And, be forewarned, it’s a gigantic behemoth of … Continue reading
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Grungedown No. 16
I’m instilling a weeklong boycott of the Cubs. That’s it, no more for a week. I’m too depressed, despondent, infuriated, and self-pitying. With time freed up from this apparent exercise in futility, I should be able to finish my novel, … Continue reading
Grungedown No. 17
Intrepid readers of the site will realize we should actually be on Number 17. So, here it goes: 17. I Don’t Know Anything, Mad Season. It’s almost amazing that the killer riff from IDKA still survives on superrock radio today … Continue reading
Grungedown No. 23
I’m sitting here, not really doing anything, not really knowing what to talk about. It would be fitting if today’s grunge countdown entry was Nothing to Say. However, it isn’t, and before we go any further, I want to convey … Continue reading
Grungedown No. 19
Are these cathartic? They might be. Anyway, get Cincinnati out of town, do away with them, I don’t care to see them ever again. Assuming Adam Dunn played the Cubs each and every game, his line would be — .768, … Continue reading
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Tagged Grungedown, Malfunkshun, Neil Young, No. 19
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Grungedown
20. Sappy, Nirvana The Kings of Rock in the 1990s, Nirvana’s cult following splashes over into the mainstream and back again. Spare me any of your scoffs at the elementary and primitive nature of much of Nirvana’s music — somehow … Continue reading
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Grungedown No. 21
It may be light here for a few days — even though baseball begins LIVE on Monday (And, true to absolute form, I’m excited for the Cubs season even though I have no rational reason to be), it’s going to … Continue reading
Grungedown No. 22
So it’s spring today, supposedly, yet after a balmy winter, my ridiculous shell of a state is bathed in a blizzard/rainstorm. In the immortal words of William Shatner, sometimes irony, well, it can be pretty ironic. 22. Green River, Swallow … Continue reading
Grungedown No. 24
I’m trying to do a bracket a day. I just filled out my second, and crumpled it up, because I had a Final Four of Iowa, Memphis, North Carolina, and Boston College. No way all those flawed teams are going, … Continue reading
Grungedown: No. 25
In commemoration of my legendary pilgrimage to Seattle, I’ve decided, in the next 25 weeks, to count down the Top 25 Grunge Songs of All Time and Infinity, presented to you once weekly, with much pomp and circumstance. Yes, you’re … Continue reading