yes, you're right

I shouldn't be blogging at 3:40 in the morning.
especially with the workload I have in my lap, and a continuing case of convulsive coughing (seemingly triggered every time I lay down for more than 30 minutes at a time which, along with the workload, may explain why I'm awake at 3:40 in the morning).

I lied, by the way. but unknowingly.
it seems I do have non-blog material up this week as the Nashville Scene saw fit to run an excerpt of my long-form interview with Aimee Mann.
but here's some fresher, newer stuff that I didn't write:
a wonderful piece (right in his wheelhouse) by Tom Chiarella (that's Tom above, in a Michael Edwards photo fittingly titled "Tom as Butcher") courtesy of esquire.com (it's their meat issue or something),
and a profile of Jessica Simpson by the uber-talented Will Blythe (not an assignment I would've made, but then again I wouldn't run a cover story on page 530 either - shows what I don't know about publishing, I guess).
and if you're looking for something really stupid by a national writer with a full-time gig (nope, I'm not jealous at all), cbssports.com senior writer Dennis Dodd manages to go out of his way to write about shit he knows nothing about in an article ostensibly discussing upsets in college football.
the quote: "Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: He's a still-cool iconic rocker. She's a new-age violinist who is trying to gravy train a still-cool iconic rocker."
anyone who believes that Alison Krauss, a 21-time Grammy winner, is a "new-age violinist" has no business writing about Alison Krauss (not to mention the fact that I believe it was Plant who first suggested the collaboration).

forthcoming pubs that may very well show that I'm writing about shit I know nothing about: two Possibly 4th Streets, one with IAMX and one with Amy Ray, plus a long-form interview with Giant Sand's Howe Gelb should pop on villagevoice.com just after Labor Day.

and that ain't even half of what I've got in front of me.
there's a real possibility that I may be conducting as many as four fairly major interviews (not counting baseball) next week. but I still plan on sneaking away to the U.S. Open one day.

by the way, I've got tickets to all the day sessions next week, Tuesday through Friday, and there's no way I can attend more than one. so if you need ducats at face or less, give me a holler.