Smash Mouth

Starting in two weeks or maybe three (I’m recovering from COVID) I’m going to start posting here regularly, twice a week. I’m working on a string of book projects and there will be more about that going forward.

For a while, it will all be free. Then I will go to a model where one post a week is free and one post a week will be for paid subscribers. I know which one will be more popular and that’s okay! This is going to be as much an experiment in self-worth and valuing what I do as it will be a cold-hearted cash grab.

In the meantime I wrote this last night and threw it up on my Facebook page first. Sorry.

Reading the news about Smashmouth founder/frontman Steve Harwell in hospice with liver failure really hit me tonight in a way I’d have never expected. After all, the band has been, for this country, a punchline since their career launched that summer that “Walkin’ on the Sun’ was inescapable. It was one of those songs that felt like it written specifically as a piss take on a vapid n…