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Book party. Book party. Book party. So, book parties are fun. Thank you to everyone who came out to Mississippi Pizza last night, and sorry to those who couldn’t get in because it was packed. Like, unexpectedly packed. It was nice. It was a lot of fun. As I said on Facebook and Twitter, for…

If I’m up early enough, I can stand in my garage and watch the sun rise over Mt. Hood’s peak. I don’t like to be up early enough for that, but sometimes I am. It was a hell of a sunrise this morning, pink and orange and the mountain blue and hazy as the future.…

BOOK PARTY: Still Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. at Mississippi Pizza. Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton, and Rebecca Gates will still be joining me. It will still be fun. NEW: Jim’s band, A Year Afar, will take the stage at 9 p.m. for anyone who wants to hang out and enjoy…

Join me and Rebecca Gates, Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, and Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton on Oct. 12. It’ll be fun.

Last night, I was finishing Steve Almond’s jarring rant Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, when I stopped at this: “Maybe D.H. Lawrence was right. Maybe the essential American soul is “hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.” Maybe he was. He probably was, and if he was, he still is. Today is Bruce Springsteen’s 65th birthday, and…

I got to know this guy working on Springsteen: Album By Album. Sort of. We didn’t meet. Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne has been dead a long time. He grew up in New Orleans in the late 19th century and the nickname comes from the cocktail of tea and homemade whiskey he’d carry in a flask. I wish I’d met…

‘I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.’ Amusingly, one of the most famous lines in the history of rock criticism — a line written about Bruce Springsteen by Jon Landau, who would become Bruce Springsteen’s manager — is misquoted on Bruce Springsteen’s website. “I have seen the future of rock…