MUSICAL MYSTERIES
WHY WERE THEY CALLED R.E.O. SPEEDWAGON? WHAT'S A "SPEEDWAGON"? WHAT DOES "R.E.O." STAND FOR?
Labels: Musical Mysteries
posted by Ed Park @ 9:52 PM
Disambiguation
A diary with vertigo
Contributors
Previous Posts
- "Everything I Know I Learned From Dungeons & Dragons"
- The armor of the venetian blinds
- Two great stories in one article
- "Hedgehog in the Fog"
- Ahn and Ahn
- Ego-rebuilder
- The third largest coffee in America
- Come on!
- "We can't afford to hesitate"
- Annals of octothorpia
Links
- Time to order my novel PERSONAL DAYS!
- UK paperback edition (Vintage) available!
- READ HARD: Five Years of Great Writing From The Believer, ed. Julavits & Park
- ASTRAL WEEKS (my SF column for the L.A. Times, 2007–2011)
- My pointless Tumblr
- The Believer
- 50 Watts
- The Abbott Gran Medicine Show
- Bookforum
- The Chiseler
- CORMAC and OPRAH livebloggery
- Curiosities (Mag of F&SF)
- Every Person in New York
- "Good Jobbbbbbbb"
- Grognardia (great RPG blog)
- The Harry Stephen Keeler Society
- HEY DULLBLOG—a communally run Beatles site
- Hua Hsu at The Atlantic
- THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY
- I've Been Reading Lately
- Jing Wei
- Lacunae
- Lev Grossman's blog
- Light Reading
- Moving Image Source
- Night RPM
- PERSONAL DAYS: The Intermittent Blog
- Mr. Saturnhead
- The OUROBOROS at The Dizzies
- The New-York Ghost (SUBSCRIBE! Next issue: 2011)
- Paper Cuts (NYT)
- Paul Collins: The Literary Detective
- Pinakothek
- Parkus Grammaticus: A semi-useful EP bibliography
- Heidi Julavits's Quonset Hut
- Rachel Aviv
- Restricted View
- Shadowplay
- I Was Told There'd Be SLOANE CROSLEY
- Ta-Nehisi Coates (now at The Atlantic)
- Termite Art
- "TITLE BOUTS" (Relive the action of The Dizzies' "Spinal Narrative" competition!)
- Triple Canopy
- THE UNARCHIVABLE (assorted E.P. pieces & links to old blogs)
- We Pitched a Tent at Night
- William Poundstone
- The World's Least Popular Book Club (dedicated to the slow reading of Marguerite Young's MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING
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1 Comments:
Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon
It does somehow make sense that the archetypal Midwestern band would be named after the ancestor of the pickup truck.
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