Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall

The times they are a-changin', just a little, I think. The music news site TwentyFourBit reports : "Taking the stage in a wheelchai...

Friday Music: Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound

"I've always been a leader of awkward people," Bradford Cox says . Cox, lead singer (and also guitarist, keyboardist and playe...

Music Friday: Antony and the Johnsons

My newest music obsession is Antony and the Johnsons . Antony Hegarty is, as described by SignOnSan Diego , a "brawny-looking, transsex...

New books on theology and disability

I haven't read a book on disability and religion since The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability by Nancy Eiesland ...

Friday Music: Neil Young

Image description: From 2007, a color photo of Neil Young from the waist up. He's giving the peace sign while standing at a microphone d...

Friday Music Mix Tape

I'm trying something new, thanks to Grace . I did it for me, but then I thought I'd share it. The above image of a cassette tape (wi...

Friday Music: Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon would be an appropriate music post on The Gimp Parade because he was a well-known musician with obsessive-compulsive disorder, ...

Sign language in Sia's videos

Sia, an Australian pop singer perhaps best known for her song "Breathe Me" which played during the closing sequence of the Six Fe...

Friday Music: Kristen Hersh

Kristen Hersh began performing in the college-radio band Throwing Muses at age 14. She's been writing music, performing and touring her ...

Friday Music: The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama are an old-school gospel group that's been singing and touring since 1939. Yeah, 1939 . That's a lot of c...

Friday Music: Chavela Vargas

April 17, last week, was the 89th birthday of Chavela Vargas, the legendary Mexican-Costa Rican singer. My friend Penny Richards of Disabili...

Friday Music: Sinéad O'Connor

This is what Sinéad O'Connor actually said this past September, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article : "I'd been su...

Friday Music: Boys on Wheels

Since I posted this at The Gimp Parade last June , Boys on Wheels has been a fairly major contributer to my site's daily visitor hit cou...

Friday Music: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is a music legend you may never have heard about. He was a singer and drummer of the '60s psych-jazz band Soft Machine tha...

Disability Blog Carnival at Pitt Rehab

Today's latest Disability Blog Carnival, up over at Pitt Rehab , is the 26th. (I know !) Greg's theme is "How do you relax and ...

Friday music: Crash Test Dummies

Another great song about difference, bodily or otherwise: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies Once there was this kid who Got into an acc...

Remake of the Ramones' song

Direct link to YouTube video here . Visual description: This is a video remake of the classic Ramones song "I Wanna be Sedated" su...

Deaf Karaoke with David Armand

Direct link to YouTube video here . This is a live performance of the song "Torn" by comedian David Armand of The Hollow Men wit...

Friday music: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone

Link to a YouTube video here . The images in the video present a montage of photos about the American Civil Rights movement, set to Nina Sim...

Friday music: Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie is a talented percussionist who is also profoundly deaf. As she explains , media attention that focuses on the state of her h...