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

Friday, September 12, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION.

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Saw Velvet Goldmine recently; it was a whole vibe, and this tune certainly didn't hurt. Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION.

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Keepin' the energy up. Still on vacation (take heart, Roy Edroso Breaks It Down readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d l...
Friday, August 15, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION.

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Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper. I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure o...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION.

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lol Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie sa...
Friday, July 25, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION.

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 I keep the telephone beside me all the time  It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – ...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION.

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I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me. I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a Roy Ed...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION.

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I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not, but also because he catches me up on acts like this. On the one hand, the outrages never ...
Friday, July 04, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SO FAT DON CAN READ IT WITHOUT HIS GLASSES EDITION.

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If you hate us, you just don't know what you're sayin'. A lot of people are gloomy this Independence Day, so right out of the ...
Friday, June 27, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION.

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If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right. Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution . I th...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

YOU SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEYOND YOUR COMMAND.

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Regular readers know I lived most of my life in New York and love it in the bittersweet way of exile. So the mayoral primary victory of Z...
Friday, June 20, 2025

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIFE-RAFTS IN THE FLOOD EDITION.

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The Spanish guys working on the building down the street played this. They know what's good. I'll be less attentive to the collap...
Friday, June 13, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THE JACKBOOT FITS, WEAR IT EDITION.

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I mean. Used to worry on Friday the 13th but we’re not feeling too lucky anyhow; every week it seems Tubby’s mob pushes a little harder...
Friday, June 06, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CRIME FAMILY FEUD EDITION.

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Yeah, I like this shit. What about it? I know everyone’s enjoying the TrumpMusk drama, and I hate to find myself on the side of the squares,...
Friday, May 23, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: MEMORIAL DAY BUGOUT EDITION.

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You know what, I don't listen to enough Betty Wright. In addition to serving as the conscience of the nation I have a day job, so it’...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: 86 THIS WEEK EDITION.

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This one goes through my mind a lot lately. One of the problems with missing my customary Friday 'R-T-H filing is, so much weird stuff c...
Friday, May 09, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FIND THE POPE IN THE DEEP-DISH PIZZA EDITION.

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My hands were made out of silver/ But they were looking for gold Another wild week, this one with a Pope in it, an American at that! I hardl...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

CHOC-O-MUT ICE CREAMS IS STILL CONSERVATIVE!

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Jumpscare!  I seldom post outside of Friday-'Round-the-Horn weekly summaries anymore -- subscribe to Roy Edroso Breaks It Down for dail...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

SATURDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: CAVALCADE OF SCARS EDITION.

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I'm sure you know the early work of David Thomas ( RIP ) and Pere Ubu. Here's something from 2017. He got kinda Beefheart as he went...
Monday, April 21, 2025

MONDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIKE YOU NEVER MISS A DEADLINE EDITION.

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Local neo-soul cafe filling me in on what I've been missing. Look , I’m busy, OK??? So Friday ‘Round-the-Horn is atrociously late, an...
Friday, April 11, 2025

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DISAPPEARING JUSTICE EDITION.

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A little light for the dark,  How are you liking Life in These (Former) United States? I’m keeping tabs on Judge Xinis hearing an as...
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