I suppose you are right Jake ... to some extent. I think I've seen promotion for Exile on Fourth Street that notes Cory "Hot Rod" Ahlm will be performing, though.

And when Guns 'n' Roses finally hangs it up for good we won't start referring to Axl as "Bill."

One week earlier I broke the story of Andrew Slade being forced to resign as education director at the Great Lakes Aquarium, a scandal that would later make the Duluth News Tribune's list of the year's biggest stories.

But Cory taking on the moniker Hot Rod was a equally important. Honestly, I don't remember if I wrote that one, though. I did a lot of those music news blurbs, but never with a byline, so maybe Christine Dean or someone else broke that hot piece of news.

1) "Hot" and "rod" are words. There is no word "hotrod." I can't help it if Cory can't spell his own nickname correctly.

2) The band renders it as "Hot Rod" on its website.