Skip to content
Paltry Sum

Paltry Sum

Detroit Richards

  • The Paltry Sum
  • Contact Me
  • Detroit Richards: Writer Biography
  • Poems
  • Writing the Present
  • Writing the Past
  • Music and Reviews
  • San Francisco Days

Creem February 1973: Part 1: Proto Patti’s, NewsStand Outings, Chuck Berry and ‘Transformer’ Dissed by a Robot.

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 15, 2023March 15, 2023

Warren Zevon: Gonzo Musical Mutineer

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 5, 2023March 5, 2023

Lou Reed’s Masterpiece, Berlin: Insanely Sad Songs

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 26, 2023February 27, 2023

Silence: The Writing’s On The Hat

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 25, 2023February 25, 2023

Tea and Oranges. Needles and Pins. Bad Livers and Broken Hearts. Loved, even though you knew you were wrong…perfect Combinations: The Paltry February 2023 Playlist

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 22, 2023February 24, 2023

James Taylor and Kurt Cobain: Cut From The Same Cloth

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 13, 2023February 24, 2023

Pink Floyd Are At Each Other’s Throats Again: Are They Just Dogs of War?

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 8, 2023February 9, 2023

Nirvana: UnAmerican Dreaming

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 8, 2023February 8, 2023

Punk Pop-Pets: Bubblegum, Dollar Signs And Ripped Tee Shirts and Why Blondie is Meaningless And Patti The WordSmith Is A Punk Priestess

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 4, 2023February 4, 2023

Bringing it All Back Home / Highway 61 Revisted Part 2: The Lost Highway

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 1, 2023February 8, 2023

Tom Verlaine 1949-2023: Fallen into the Arms Of the Venus De Milo

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 29, 2023January 30, 2023

North? Beach.

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 28, 2023January 28, 2023

The Gold Painted Buddha and the Mooncakes

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 20, 2023January 20, 2023

The Time David Crosby Judged my Joint Rolling Skills To Be Adequate/ David Crosby 1941-2023

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 19, 2023February 26, 2023

Tom Waits: Pimping The Bottle

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 15, 2023February 26, 2023

The Paltry Sum’s 101 Greatest Singers Of All Time

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 14, 2023January 15, 2023

Coming Out Of the Non-Binary Closet

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 11, 2023January 11, 2023

Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light: Lou Reed’s Lulu

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJanuary 9, 2023January 9, 2023

The Path To Highway 61 Revisited: Bringing It All Back Home (PART 1)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsDecember 11, 2022February 1, 2023

This Is Not A Drill Tour Review: The Genius of Roger Waters

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 24, 2022February 26, 2023

Joni Mitchell, Newport 2022. More Than A Queen

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJuly 25, 2022February 26, 2023

Not My Kind

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJuly 1, 2022July 3, 2022

The Kentucky Derby is Still Decadent and Depraved

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 7, 2022March 4, 2023

Ramblin’ Jack: Digging Those 912 Greens

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsDecember 23, 2021February 26, 2023

Geary Street Boys

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJune 14, 2021December 20, 2022

Beat Till Tender(loin)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 27, 2021December 20, 2022

Mr and Mr Bukowski

Musings by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 23, 2021March 19, 2022

Fishing Hooks and Head Stocks

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 19, 2021October 29, 2021
San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2021May 20, 2021

From My Window #5. The Whimpering

Sometimes things happen outside which would identify where I am, I suppose. The noises and the wailing, the boop boop of the cop cars, the sounds of something or someone hurting to the point that human or animal it doesn’t matter. Humanity from animal reality is barely distinguishable: pain is pain all the same, and […]

More

The Walkers on the Tender Side: From My Window #4

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 14, 2021November 2, 2021

From My Window (#2)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 13, 2021November 2, 2021

From My Window (1)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 11, 2021November 2, 2021

Chris Whitley: Americana Empathica

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 9, 2021October 5, 2022

The City’s Table

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 17, 2021December 20, 2022

The Polk(a)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 5, 2021December 20, 2022
Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 1, 2021June 5, 2021

4AD: Bills and Aches and Blues!

New music rarely gets me hopping up and down in excitement. I am old. On the older end of the Generation X’ers. I am in the morass of stolid middle age where I prefer to live in past glories. I occasionally listen to new rap and hip hop. It is the only new musical genre […]

More

Zen and the Artful Beauty of the Independent Bookstore

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 5, 2021June 5, 2021

The Man Who Fought Life

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 28, 2021June 5, 2021

Inside Out (Poem)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 19, 2023March 19, 2023

…and they all fall down…

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 14, 2023March 14, 2023

Fever Ray: When I Grow Up I Wanna Be A Radical Romantic (New Fever Ray Album Review)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 12, 2023March 13, 2023

Blogging, Writing, Breathing and Healing

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 12, 2023March 12, 2023

Moving Like A Wire

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 11, 2023March 11, 2023

Stormy Weather and the Wasteland

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 9, 2023March 9, 2023

Comfort and Fear

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 7, 2023March 7, 2023

Free As A Bird Now: Gary Rossington 1951-2023

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 6, 2023March 12, 2023

Daisy Jones and the Six – The Light Is Just Right But The Substance Isn’t There: TV Adaptation Review

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 5, 2023March 5, 2023

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 95 Next
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Contact Me
  • Detroit Richards: Writer Biography
  • My account
  • Shop
  • The Paltry Sum
Paltry Sum
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Gema.
 

Loading Comments...