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Jason Carr: Why you should support Saturday Night Live, through good and bad
Read full article: Jason Carr: Why you should support Saturday Night Live, through good and badYou should support SNL. Through good times and bad it’s always there for us. I just hope it outlives me, whether I’m ever on it or not.
Jason Carr: You’re stranded on an island. What Detroit or Michigan item are you bringing?
Read full article: Jason Carr: You’re stranded on an island. What Detroit or Michigan item are you bringing?If you had to be stranded like Tom Hanks in Castaway, what’s the one Detroit or Michigan food item or beverage you could have a never-ending supply of on your deserted island?
Jason Carr: These songs of the past 20 years will get me on the dance floor
Read full article: Jason Carr: These songs of the past 20 years will get me on the dance floorSo without further ado, here is my personally curated playlist of Songs That Have Come Out Since I Was 32 Guaranteed To Make Me Dance at 52:
Jason Carr: What’s your best ‘work smarter, not harder’ life hack? Here’s one I just learned
Read full article: Jason Carr: What’s your best ‘work smarter, not harder’ life hack? Here’s one I just learnedHis message: work smarter not harder. At least, that was my takeaway. I scroll Reels like I’m eating Crème Brulee.
Jason Carr: Funny is subjective. But these people are the funniest of all time
Read full article: Jason Carr: Funny is subjective. But these people are the funniest of all timeFunny is subjective. Like art. One guy looks at a painting and says, my kid coulda done that. Other guy standing next to him says, the nerve! That’s a masterpiece!
Jason Carr: Let’s talk about suspension of disbelief and ‘Scooby Doo, Where Are You?’
Read full article: Jason Carr: Let’s talk about suspension of disbelief and ‘Scooby Doo, Where Are You?’Let’s talk about suspension of disbelief and Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Seems a fair topic ahead of Halloween. Why not?
Jason Carr: This underrated 80s band had the best 7-minute pop song in music history
Read full article: Jason Carr: This underrated 80s band had the best 7-minute pop song in music historyI’m not sure there’s a tighter more thrilling seven-minute pop song in music history than New Order’s Blue Monday.
Jason Carr: This 80s band was severely underrated -- and they have the hits to prove it
Read full article: Jason Carr: This 80s band was severely underrated -- and they have the hits to prove itABC is another Eighties act severely underrated. This is a band that cranked out hit after hit during the first part of the decade.
Jason Carr: No 80s band had a more improbable run than this one
Read full article: Jason Carr: No 80s band had a more improbable run than this oneThere is no band that had a more improbable run through a half-a-decade (ok, maybe ZZ Top) in which you would have lost money betting they would not have had a string of hits than… .38 Special.
Jason Carr: Why the changing of seasons bums me out
Read full article: Jason Carr: Why the changing of seasons bums me outThe changing of the seasons blows. Not just the chilly wind or October skies. It’s also the slow death of the tree leaves, the expense of closing the pool, Lions football. You know what I’m saying.
Jason Carr: We need a sports announcing intervention. Something is missing
Read full article: Jason Carr: We need a sports announcing intervention. Something is missingSomething is missing. I believe the phrase that I’m looking for is “larger than life” voices. A guy whose vocal stylings are synonymous with the games being called.
Jason Carr: My love for cars and the Detroit auto show
Read full article: Jason Carr: My love for cars and the Detroit auto showThe launch of a new car model is always exciting. Maybe it’s because my dad was an autoworker, I grew up in the Motor City and my last name is Carr. Also, I’ve owned 21 different cars since I started driving 35 years ago. That’s a lot of cars.
Jason Carr: Whatever happened to the gut-busting comedies of yesteryear?
Read full article: Jason Carr: Whatever happened to the gut-busting comedies of yesteryear?Remember the early 2000′s (the Aughts)? The first decade of the new millennium was absolutely filthy with raucous crowd-pleasing flicks that had moviegoers doubled over in hysterics. Especially the mid-Aughts.
Jason Carr: The things that made Saturday mornings so great
Read full article: Jason Carr: The things that made Saturday mornings so greatI feel bad for the youths of today. Who didn’t get to experience the joy of Saturday morning cartoons. The entire reason for existing in the late Seventies and early Eighties.
Jason Carr: This Detroit spot has the best fries in Metro Detroit, hands down
Read full article: Jason Carr: This Detroit spot has the best fries in Metro Detroit, hands downWith National French Fry day on tap (and btw why the hell is it not on a Friday), I thought I would oil the mechanisms and grease the levers on said topic.
Jason Carr: Weird things I ate as a child (salt and radishes?)
Read full article: Jason Carr: Weird things I ate as a child (salt and radishes?)I did some strange things when I was a kid. Well, they didn’t seem strange at the time because you’re a kid and don’t know jack squat. Some of those oddities involved the consumption of odd foods.
Jason Carr: An introduction to my new column
Read full article: Jason Carr: An introduction to my new columnGrowing up in Metro Detroit, I took a shine to all media. If you had asked me, I likely would have told you I wanted to grow up and “be on television” like Mort Crim, be the funny morning radio guy like Harper & Gannon on WNIC, or a newspaper columnist like Bob Talbert or, later on, Mitch Albom.