Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. If you’ve watched a lot of Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom—whatever, you’ve witnessed the time-lapse scenery progressions of the African watering hole, as the animals continue to show up despite the lake becoming a pond, then a puddle, then mud. Then the…

Insert Foot vs. risking your life at drive-in concerts. A RIFF editor recently asked me to cover an upcoming drive-in concert by Sublime with Rome at a local fairground, drive-in lot, or giant field of wheat in the middle of … somewhere. I was informed it’s one of the…

Insert Foot vs. the future, and the possible end of the old guard like Fleetwood Mac. Photo and rendering: Roman Gokhman/STAFF. People love to say something is “the end of an era.” Usually it’s someone older than you, trying to say they remember when things were better. Or, in…

Nobunny is no more. So is Burger Records. There’s this idea among intelligent, independently leaning artist types that they’re above the fray when it comes to sexism, racism … fill in your own “isms.” Fuck them. Words are supposed to be something I’m capable of forming. But that’s all…

I read a story about baseball today, which was well-written … so much so that it actually made me miss baseball again. For about a half hour. I haven’t really cared much about baseball in years, which will likely be another sad, wistful column set to aching violin music…

Insert Foot is woke on Joey Chestnut, “Luke Cage.” A few independent thoughts on Independence Day. As I brace myself for the annual Joey Chestnut Coney Island puke fest (I can’t even eat one hot dog without feeling like I committed a health crime unless I ate it at…

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…

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…

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…

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…