Last month, I shut down a niche music blog I’d been running for the past seven plus years called Country California. This is, I guess, kind of a postmortem: My way of encapsulating and commemorating the whole experience. What it was When I develop fascinations, I go deep. By April of 2008, I found I […]
New song: “Life at 61”
As we consider how to not be the nation with the highest incarceration rate, there’s still a lot of work to be done in finding effective ways to reintegrate those who’ve been locked up into the outside world. Freedom alone doesn’t give people who’ve served their time much of a chance if they’re “freed” with […]
New song: “You Were a Blessing in My Life”
This is a little sentimental, but I guess we all probably (hopefully) have a long line of people in our pasts worth thanking that we’ll never actually get to thank. Because we didn’t appreciate what they did for us enough at the time. Because we did appreciate it, but didn’t say so. Because we’ve lost […]
Social media is what you make it
Social media is shared space, like a town square. I try to take responsibility for my own little corner of that space. I try to fill it with flashes of humor and humanity while keeping it free of bigotry, oversharing, viral videos, memes of the moment, political propaganda, and all the other unkindnesses and trivialities […]
The greatest gift you can give someone else…
The greatest gift you can give someone else is doing your own emotional work. As I get better acquainted with the types of difficulties encountered by most of us in a day-to-day way, I am less and less troubled by the idea of things done deliberately to hurt me or ruin my day. Notwithstanding its […]
New songs: “Hell Yes, I Like Your Mustache” and “90s Sedan”
In the earliest days of this site, I was wary of posting too many humorous lyrics lest my whole interest in lyric-writing seem to be one big joke. Now that I’ve begun to establish my self-serious songwriter bona fides with downright pitiful songs about people breaking up and dying and being inclined toward addiction, the […]
“Regarding your party invitation,” semi-live!
This month marks one year of writing regularly here at Meet Chris Wilcox. Let’s be honest: The thrill is gone, right? Where once you would run through the streets hollering and fist-pumping at the arrival of each new dispatch, now you barely note the subject line before filing the email away in a special folder […]
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