Author Archives: Tony Hicks
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Insert Foot: Live Nation fooling itself into believing it’s an essential business
Insert Foot vs. Live Nation. A Live Nation memo leaked earlier this month indicating that North America’s largest promoter of live events will shake down performers even more, while shoving more monetary responsibility onto those same performers, if and when venues re-open in 2021. Apparently only Live Nation is…
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Insert Foot: Face to face with Neil Sedaka without any pants
Insert Foot Vs. partially naked Neil Sedaka and holy shoes. I took my mom somewhere today because I inadvertently made the mistake of telling her I was going somewhere she likes to go. Target. Because everybody’s mom likes Target. The COVID has changed life to the point where I…
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Insert Foot: Lady Antebellum or Lady A: what exactly is in a name?
Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Lady A, also known as the artists formerly known as Lady Antebellum, isn’t having a good week. Neither is Lady A. One moment … The part about not having a good week … month … year, is definitely going around. But the alleged misunderstanding that caused…
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Insert Foot: When social unrest comes to the suburbs, does anything really change?
Black Lives Matter protestors begin their march from Civic Park in Walnut Creek on June 5, 2020. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. If you want to understand the relationship between police and those who they arrest, simply get yourself arrested some time. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Even a peaceful, white suburban male not…
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Insert Foot: What KISS trading cards, the Beatles and cockroaches have in common
Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I no longer like cockroaches. I never really did like them, but they had their uses. For example, as a young guy, my former roommate and I used to play the lights out game, where we’d sneak into our kitchen after the light was out for…
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Insert Foot: Terrible things still not as horrible as more ‘We Are the World’
Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I heard Lionel Richie was talking about redoing “We Are the World.” Awesome, I immediately thought. The COVID has officially dried up the world’s supply of creativity (as I, ironically, desperately searched for a topic two hours before deadline). As you know, there are too many…
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Insert Foot: Coronalists and hating just about everything right now
Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Nope … I don’t want you to nominate me to list my 10 most influential brands of granola in 10 days while nominating someone else each day to do same, thereby dragging them into my own personal hell. I’ve come to hate the coronalists. This COVID-19…
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Obituary: Why the sad face for Little Richard, a man who epitomized the joy of rock and roll?
Little Richard poses for a portrait in circa 1957. Photo: Michael Ochs. Little Richard will forever be responsible for my daughter’s name. The same could be partially said for Charles Schulz, Lucille Ball’s parents and the person who named my grandmother’s cousin—who, not coincidentally—was terribly nice to me when…
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Insert Foot: Let your freak follicles fly, says Mother Nature
Insert Foot Vs. The Freak follicles I was on a roll, writing this column, liking what I came up, and then … POOF. Gone. Kind of like life before a certain virus decided to kick down everyone’s front door and remind us Mother Nature, and coronavirus, is still boss.…
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Insert Foot: Covideos could be the new selfies
Insert Foot and the COVID-EO. If I understand this right, live shots from a laptop pointed at your face is the new selfie, thanks to the Covid. That’s what I call it, and that’s what I’m going to call it. It’s not intended to be disrespectful. It’s just that…
