Archive for 2014/02


The Barricades Of Heaven

It was sunny today. Spring is coming. Just when I want to put on the brakes and have the world slow down. I’m thirty one days in but I can see the ski season ending, and with the California drought I doubt Mammoth will make it until June. I don’t think I could live on […]

WhatsApp

He’s creatively bankrupt. Recent studies show that few post and no one clicks through on likes, what’s a poor boy to do? Buy something with all that Wall Street money to deflect criticism as those prognosticating and investing miss the point. Steve Jobs is a hero not because he started the computer revolution, but because […]

Sunk Costs

Ginny gave me “The Art of Critical Decision Making” for Christmas. She gave everybody else a bathrobe. After saying it’s hard to buy a gift for me, she told me to get back to her, to let her know what I thought. Huh. I’m self-educated. Show me a lecturer and I’ll point out someone I […]

Bob Casale

Used to be our heroes O.D.’ed. Now they die of old age. Once upon a time Devo remade “Satisfaction” and after taking us back in time, devolving to a sound earlier than the art rock and corporate tunes that dominated the airwaves, they broke ground in video and inspired us by demonstrating that art is […]