I Didn’t Expect to Write About Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen died. It affected me more than I would’ve expected.

Positively Fan Street

Postulating on fan behavior through the lens of Van Halen changing their lead singer 35 years ago.

Fandom, Fanaticism and the Question of Art

The nature of nerd fandom is a uniquely strange thing, one that I have yet to see repeated in other fan bases. It fosters the notion that the fans somehow “own” the material as much as the artist, or that they have some sort of legitimate input to bring to the table for the creative process.