Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.