Opinion
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Insert Foot: Make space for music on the walls
Insert Foot visits the Fillmore concert poster room. Original image: Mike DeWald/STAFF. I had a dilemma this week. A very first world problem, not a “Sophie’s Choice” kind of dilemma. It was more like that feeling well-off suburbanites get when forced to park their SUV an extra row away from…
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Insert Foot: Spend local; the ticket robots don’t need your money
Insert Foot is available to fill in as Taylor Hawkins in any Foo Fighters tribute bands, such as the Fooz Fighters. My buddy and I had this silly idea this week that we could go see the Foo Fighters in Tahoe in August. We don’t need to, as we’ve…
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Insert Foot: “The Last of Us” finale and the Right’s hypocrisy
No, “The Last of Us” season finale was not an anti-abortion statement. How is it possible to be surprised anymore? But I was, during a week many of us were totally not surprised when a former president of the United States got criminally indicted for (allegedly) bribing a porn star.…
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Insert Foot: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame needs to go away
Insert Foot vs. the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I was curious as to when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will announce its big winners this year, so I would know when to get angry and start picking fights on social media. I do understand the…
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Insert Foot: Courtney Love, Chrissie Hynde partially right about women in the rock hall
Courtney Love photographed during Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 20, 2018. Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images for Balmain. Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love both ripped the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week for its lack of female representation, as both performers and those determining its membership. Rendering:…
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Insert Foot: It’s past time to admit Marvel’s supershark has been jumped, before ‘Ant-Man’
Did you know that Insert Foot appeared in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?” A strange thing happened recently when I asked my 14-year-old daughter – whom we’ll call “Lucy” (because that’s her name) – if she wanted to see the latest Marvel movie, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” She punched…
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Column: Warriors fuse music, athleticism on African American heritage night at Chase Center
Alfreda Lyons-Campbell and the Sangin Saints perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a game between the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers at Chase Center in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2023. Courtesy Golden State Warriors. SAN FRANCISCO — Few sports fuse music and athleticism quite like basketball. Sure,…
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Insert Foot: We used to like Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert’ so much
Insert Foot vs. Scott Adams and “Dilbert.” I was going to join the chorus last week and rip Scott Adams for showing how much of a racist he is, and explain why he’s wrong, but why? At this point, either you’re racist or you’re not. If there’s not enough…
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Insert Foot: Take Super Bowl Sunday off; football is getting gross
Insert Foot ain’t feeling the Super Bowl this year. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Chris Martin just called me an idiot. I’ve been called worse by much better singers. The Coldplay frontman recently gushed a steaming pile of smelly fanboy nonsense to Apple Music 1, eventually blithering “You have to be…
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Insert Foot: What you didn’t know you need to know about the Grammys
Insert Foot: What you didn’t know you need to know about the Grammys Smell that? It’s that time of year again. Bad movies, scant new music and uninteresting TV (not including “The Last of Us,” over which I didn’t cry; YOU cried) until March. Nobody wants to compete…