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Funky Friday: Sonny Knight and the Lakers Make New Sound Old

I’ve often joked that if I managed to make it to Heaven, I’d want my own horn section whose job would be to follow me around and punctuate my conversation with James Brown-style R&B call-and-response awesomeness. More realistically, I’m constantly on the lookout for new bands that reach back to that classic soul sound and […]

Power Pop Wednesday: A Machine Just Released a Manufactured ‘Beatles’ Song

Like most Beatles fans, there was a time when we hoped the band would somehow reunite for just one last show. That hope took a nosedive first with the shooting death of John Lennon, then George Harrison’s death from cancer. Along the way, we got a few tidbits, including a new song by the surviving […]

Returning from That Summer Place

It’s almost back to school time here in southeastern Pennsylvania, which means the kids will be terminating their summer brain dumps, rushing to catch up on assigned reading and trying to remember how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers. That usually means time for the grownups to start getting their acts together, too. I […]

Pre-Father’s Day Funky Friday: Papa Don’t Take No Mess

Scattered across the Interwebs you’ll see a profusion of lame nostalgia from folks who maintain that their childhoods were the most idyllic and utterly perfect because of our borderline neglectful parents, helmetless Big Wheel obstacle courses, afternoons binging on ’60s TV sitcom reruns, hours of Atari and gallons of fully sugared Kool-Aid. I decline to […]

May Your Monday Be Neato, Boss and Groovy

A little secret – I get all my best dance moves from Wednesday Addams, who apparently got all her dance moves from James Brown. Evidence here: Filed under: Fun, Motivation, Music, Scott B. Pruden, Television, video Tagged: Addams Family, dance, funk, funky, James Brown, Monday, Wednesday

Zoinks! A Big Announcement

  I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I’ve decided to forgo any additional work on my second novel and leave Codorus Press. I appreciate that many of you enjoyed “Immaculate Deception” when it came out back in 2010, but the truth is that on the side sense then […]

Holy Sh*t! OKGo Releases Video Shot in Zero-G

It’s only been posted for a few hours, but take three minutes and eight seconds out of your day to view this new morsel of awesomeness from the power pop masterminds OKGo. The new video is for the song “Upside Down & Inside Out” from their latest album, Hungry Ghosts. Evidently, the band hitched a […]

David Bowie: A Cosmic Inspiration

So we learned today that David Bowie left us for some transcendental plane. Whether you believe in heaven or not, it’s comforting for me to think that the creative consciousness of this remarkable spirit has burst out into the cosmos and is somehow lingering among us. Along with all the other fine tributes from folks […]

5 New Year Resolutions for the Aspiring Freelancer

With the new year, lots of folks cast their minds to a life change. For many, that change involves leaving the 9-to-5 working world and becoming a freelancer. A while back, I was supervising my son at a birthday party for one of his elementary school classmates. The birthday boy’s father and I got to […]

NoNoNoNo: The Tyranny of #NaNoWriMo

We’ve now officially passed the middle of what all writers (and exasperated spouses/family of writers) know as National Novel Writing Month. And I have come not to praise this obnoxious exercise in virtual participatory nonsense, but to kill it, burn it, gather the ashes in a bucket and bury them. In a deep, deep hole. […]