Death Cab for Cutie has inadvertently insisted on inserting its music into our Solid Gold Summer – ...
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Golden Summer Years
31 Jul, 2026
Nothing gold can stay, or so some say, and the idea of permanence no longer seems to ...
I Was Cleopatra
30 Jul, 2026
A musical twist on our recent Egyptian excursion for our Solid Gold summer, this song is neither ...
Caravans transport the precious across the sand. They move at night, the only time when it’s not ...
About Alan Ilagan
Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.

