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While alicubi.com undergoes extensive elective surgery, its editors pen somber, Shackletonian missives from their lonely arctic outpost.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

RETURN TO McARDLE.

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I know for a while I haven't been doing this more than weekly as a round-up for Roy Edroso Breaks It Down ( SUBSCRIBE , by the way -- w...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH FORWARD EDITION.

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Have we done this one before? Hell with it, it's nice. Just a few words on David Lynch : Aside from the statements his films make, it...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NEW FRONTIERS IN SANEWASHING EDITION.

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Another one from the neo-soul coffee shop. I keep filing these weekly dispatches late, due to my absurdly crowded work schedule; if you come...
Monday, January 06, 2025

DAY OF WRECKONING

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I could call this Friday-‘Round-the-Horn-Except-on-Monday, as I did last week , but I’m mainly here to tell you today’s Roy Edroso Breaks...
Monday, December 30, 2024

MONDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BETWEEN A REICH AND A HARD PLACE EDITION.

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Let's have a little soothing jangle-bell rock. Yeah, it’s normally Friday ‘Round-the-Horn – but I am told on social media that the pe...
Friday, December 20, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SITUATION NOT-NORMAL BUT STILL ALL F***ED UP

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For a long time I could only find a weird remix of this, so I stopped looking.  But it's here! It’s the last month without Tubby for a w...
Friday, December 13, 2024

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: IRON LUNG REVIVAL EDITION.

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I'm an old crank but you know what? This is Xmas music I can get with. To paraphrase the old Chinese, we are now  Living In Interesting ...
Friday, December 06, 2024

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: SICK, SICK, SICK EDITION.

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Five, four shots, I be ready to splash. Sorry I missed you last week! Holidays are frickin' rough around here. But I pledge that if ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: AN AGE OF CLODS AND MONSTERS EDITION.

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I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record. Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically --...
Friday, November 15, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BRINGIN' IT ALL BACK HOME EDITION.

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Never out of fashion. Another week into the over-the-cliff phase of the death of democracy! The appointments Tubby’s trying to push through ...
Friday, November 08, 2024

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: PEOPLE JUST GET UGLIER AND I HAVE NO SENSE OF TIME EDITION.

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What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong. Hard week to feel good about! After a campaign in which the Republican candidate d...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

SUNDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: CHAMPAGNE OR HEMLOCK EDITION.

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I'm old and I was old then too but how did I miss this? The title comes from not-yet-governor-elect  Mario Cuomo on election night 1982 ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: JEFF BEZOS IS A PARASITIC PIECE OF SHIT WHO SHOULD BE TAXED INTO OBLIVION EDITION.

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I love Jill Scott and this song but had never before heard this live stretch-out. Nice! It’s just barely Friday, still, but I’m coming in un...
Friday, October 18, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: T-MINUS-18 DAYS AND COUNTING EDITION.

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The pride of Cabo Verde. Really barreling into the election now, as you can tell by the kind of crap rightwing papers are trying to put ov...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL EDITION.

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Heard this one at the taco place. Friday ‘Round-the-Horn come on a Saturday this week, as the Pogo peeps used to say . Well, we’re all bus...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM REDUX.

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Some ragged guy was playing this on the train. Slaps, is that still the term? Late again, Bullwinkle! And I’m busy and must be brief. I will...
Friday, September 27, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THEY'RE HITLER AND YOU KNOW IT EDITION.

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We had lunch at a Turkish restaurant and much of the pleasure was in the Turkish pop playing in the bakcground. The mental disintegration of...
Friday, September 20, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ...AND FUBAR, TOO, EDITION.

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Hey greybeards! Sounds pretty good, huh? 2017.  Modern stuff's hard to keep up with, but nice when you catch it. I keep starting the...
Friday, September 13, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DOG SOLDIERS EDITION.

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Ha ha, get it. Cool tune tho. Helluva week, huh? I know, I said that last week, but it’s still true. I guess the highlight was Tubby’s wipeo...
Friday, September 06, 2024

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GET ME REWRITE (FOR TRUMP) EDITION.

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My local coffee shop plays a lot of neo-soul. I missed ‘Round-the-Horn last week, sorry! I was on an extended Labor Day break, during whi...
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