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We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then: The absurd influence of POLICE SQUAD!

  Police Squad! has a notorious history that’s been told many times over by now, a brilliant comedy by Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker that ran for all of six episodes in 1982 before ABC pulled it, famously saying that the comedy was too smart for their viewers and required too much attention. While revealing a sad truth about […]

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Now she’s gone, and I’m back on the beat: Squeeze, SINGLES 45s AND UNDER

  This one is short– greatest hits albums don’t lend themselves to deep thematic analysis. I just wanted to review a band I really like and find underappreciated.   If, like many Americans, you only know Squeeze from “Tempted,” you’re really missing out. The best band named after the worst Velvet Underground album were pop […]