CARRY ME Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world About ninety minutes out of L.A., we hit turbulence.  Never-ending turbulence.  Just shy of scary turbulence.  The steward told us the captain said it would last all the way to Tahiti.  So we girded ourselves.  We talked, we read, we tried to relax.  But […]

Unlike our President, I read the papers, I’m not locked into my view, I’m collecting data 24/7, and sometimes I change my opinion. I want to take back any and all kudos for Neil Young and his new album.  Oh, I didn’t heap praise on it.  I mostly lauded Neil for cutting the record so […]

Ever notice that everybody’s a scumbag? I guess the reason you die at seventy is because you’ve seen the movie.  You realize that America is a scam.  Full of slimy hucksters out to make a buck.  Shit, you’d think with all the religious zealotry in the States these days we’d have a kinder, gentler nation.  […]

I had a bad experience in the Caribbean. Funny thing about getting older.  You find out you’ve lost your skills.  Stuff you used to do no problem is suddenly a BIG problem.  I once snorkeled in Sharm El Sheik before the hotels were built.  Back in ’72, as Bob Seger would say.  This was when […]