"2000 Light Years From Home"The Rolling Stones "Satanic Majesties" gets a bad rap.  Seen as a lame imitation of "Sgt. Pepper" at the time, it’s been almost completely forgotten.  Nobody’s searching for all four Beatles’ faces in the 3-D cover.  The only song that was a hit, if you can even call it that, was […]

Fans buy albums. Casual buyers purchase singles. The major labels got away with it for a while, before Napster, before the iTunes Music Store, because the ONLY WAY to get the single was TO BUY the album.  There was no Internet back in the nineties fanning the flames of the story that as soon as […]

This is a non-story. Amazon is a money-losing company run by an egomaniac that gets more press than it deserves.  It keeps on changing strategy.  Building distribution methods and then changing course when it finds they’re unprofitable.  And, speaking of profits, the company derives a large part of its income from selling USED items.  Yup, […]

Well, with the weather report predicting blistering cold, we didn’t rush out to the hill.  But, when we finally arrived at the Vista Bahn we were stunned to find out it wasn’t that cold, and barely windy at all, and CROWDED!  As crowded as Christmas.  Did I not get the memo?  Is President’s Day now […]