Matt Hoffman

What would the universe look like if DJ Lollipop Man had never taken to the airwaves from the Mothership? Think about it: if not for the Long-Haired Sucker, we’d know nothing of Starchild, the Mothership Connection, or the Thumpasorous. We’d never have learned the history of Dr. Funkenstein and Sir Nose d’Voidoffunk (the Cro-Nasal); of Funkentelechy’s triumph over the Placebo Syndrome; of the Bop Gun. George Clinton would just be the forgotten name of the fourth vice president of the United States, and none of us would know TAPOAFOM (IYKYK).

Few rain/snow showers today, but a more intense round will bring more heavy snow and travel impacts for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Toenails probably originated with our primate forebears, and they still serve a big purpose.

Few rain/snow showers today, but a more intense round will bring more heavy snow and travel impacts for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Few rain/snow showers today, but a more intense round will bring more heavy snow and travel impacts for Tuesday and Wednesday.

In pre-Internet times, teenagers used to make time capsules in school. (Nowadays, I guess kids just gather ‘round the Wayback Machine?) For the uninitiated, you’d fill a box with items from that moment in time, then bury it with the expectation that somebody would dig it up decades later. At the same time, your class would dig up a time capsule that an older generation had buried, and you’d laugh – oh, how you’d laugh! – at how charmingly old-fashioned their life appeared.

If you sip on coffee all day long, it may be time to reconsider the timing of your coffee consumption. In a new study published in the European Heart Journal, researchers found that drinking coffee only in the morning contributed to a lower mortality risk compared to drinking coffee later in the day. While several studies have suggested the health benefits of coffee, few studies have specifically looked at the timing of coffee.

Few rain/snow showers today, but a more intense round will bring more heavy snow and travel impacts for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Reed Mathis has built an impressive career and body of work by following his intuition as an instrumentalist and classically trained musician. For over thirty years, this intuition has taken the musical polymath to countless interesting places, from experimental jazz ( Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey ) to jamgrass ( Tea Leaf Green ), classical music ( Electric Beethoven ) to the Grateful Dead ( Billy & the Kids ), and his latest album, The Somnia Variations, has taken him somewhere quiet, introspective, and relaxing.

Few rain/snow showers today, but a more intense round will bring more heavy snow and travel impacts for Tuesday and Wednesday.