
Bob Dylan is 70 today (did you know?)
Happy birthday to Bob Dylan, born May 24th, 1941. I'm not big on birthdays, to be honest. What difference does ...

Bob Dylan heroin tapes: More media bullsh*t
Happy birthday, Bob Dylan, from your friends in the world of "respectable journalism." A "never before heard interview" Bob Dylan ...

Foot of Pride
Bob Dylan wrote a song called "Foot of Pride" in 1983, as part of the work he did in advance ...

On China: Bob Dylan speaks
Just when you think you've seen everything, the truly unbelievable happens. Bob Dylan has actually responded to a controversy that ...

Water Pouring Into Vicksburg
The mighty Mississippi is once again asserting the full girth of her floodplain, with brutal disregard for what human beings ...

Australia censors Bob Dylan
Obviously the government censors everywhere have realized that Bob Dylan is an easy touch. We've been told by so many ...

Happy Passover
Passover begins today at sundown, and a very happy one is wished to all celebrating. Recently the venerable Bob Cohen ...

Bob Dylan in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Bob Dylan played yesterday, April 10th, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam. He delivered a set list that ...

Maureen Dowd slams “sellout” Bob Dylan in New York Times
In a strange way, it feels almost like a victory, albeit an exceptionally perverse one. After all the writing Yours ...

Bob Dylan in Shanghai
The set list from Bob Dylan's April 8th show in Shanghai is now up at Bob Links and goes as ...

Bob Dylan in China, continued
Stories in the press continue to proliferate, implying or sometimes even asserting that Bob Dylan was prohibited from singing The ...

Dylan goes to China: Bob in Beijing
Bob Dylan played his first gig in communist China today, having played first a few nights ago in Taiwan. By ...

Daily Mail Deserves Raspberry for Bob Dylan “Story”
The story in the Daily Mail contains undated photographs of Bob Dylan, said to be taken recently outside of a ...

Bob Dylan playing Israel in June?
(Update: Now confirmed at Bob Dylan's official website.) Bill Pagel's site tracking Bob Dylan tour dates now has a whole ...

Tomorrow Is a Long Time
Consider it a palate cleanser, if you will, after that last thing on Rebecca Black and Friday. The clip below ...

Friday: Bob Dylan covers Rebecca Black
I guess this is too funny to let pass; that is, Bob Dylan's cover version of Rebecca Black's, er, song, ...

Saint Patrick’s Day: One Irish Rover
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit. It came as news to me today that there are now (unofficial) Van Morrison clips ...

Bob Dylan: Approved to play in China
Having just asserted in a different venue that I'm not going to try to keep up with everything happening in ...

Masked and Anonymous
The following is a passage from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s deeply inspiring book, Man Is Not Alone. God is unwilling to ...

West of the Jordan, East of the Rock of Gibraltar
It sure is a Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar kind of time, looking out on the Middle East, with ...

On Turning the Other Cheek: Bob Dylan et al
Today, many Christian churches following the most common Lectionary would have featured a particular segment of the Sermon on the ...

Irving Berlin, Bob Dylan, and Black Keys
Thanks to reader Richard who e-mails that he's been reading a book called A New Literary History of America, and ...

Just a Reading of the Constitution
About ten years ago, in the summer of 2001, Bob Dylan said this in an interview with Robert Hilburn of ...

Last Words on Retirement from Bob Dylan
Keith R. writes, in relation to this retirement debate, that he's surprised no one has mentioned the 60 Minutes interview ...