This has been a particularly lousy year for celebrity deaths. Today, however, has Dick Clark making it to his 80th birthday. You won’t hear much celebrating from right-wing websites, though. That’s a shame, since America’s Teenager is also a proud conservative. His personal beliefs often came into play while he saved rock ’n roll during a few rough periods. Clark is more relevant than ever, too, as you can see by this old salute to his unjustly forgotten 45 “The Fable of Fun Country.” He was also there when things got less fun with the hippies in Wild in the Streets. There’s no guarantee that Clark will be here for our next New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, so let’s have some champagne while he’s still around.

Speaking of the New Year, entries here might actually become more frequent as 2009 comes to a close. I’ll probably use this site as a place to list my Year-End and Decade-End lists—except for one or two that will run as articles elsewhere. That isn’t to suggest that any of those deep thoughts are really worth more than a Twitter.

 

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