Band: John Mellencamp
Album: The Lonesome Jubilee
Best song: Awful. None.
Worst song: The whole album is poopy.

In the pantheon of my early memories, one of the most striking is that of Harold Washington’s death.

Harold Washington was Chicago’s first black mayor and an extremely popular mayor, at that. In office for four years, he’s seen as a bit of deification since his 1987 death while in his office. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I knew something happened. Why? Because it preempted cartoons. Continue reading →