It’s Blake’s birthday. I think he was born on the day I got engaged.  We drove to Tarzana Medical Center and looked at him through the window, trying to pick him out amongst the newborns.  I remember exiting the hospital and feeling that I was beginning a new life.  But that was half a decade […]

I hate the holidays.  It’s the way the routine is broken up, how everybody stops and does…something special? Not being Christian, I don’t quite understand the whole Xmas thing.  All those presents purchased for one day.  All that family niceness.  Actually, I’m down with the carols.  If you don’t take it too seriously, if you’re […]

Which way do you want it Doug? Do you want to make a deal with the service, forming a label, to skim the cream and make a fortune selling discs? Or do you want to prove once again you’re completely out of touch, suing a company LONG AFTER everybody using it knows it’s a haven […]

You’ve got to understand.  Woodstock existed before the movie. I remember sitting in the library at Andrew Warde, my alma mater, wide-eyed, marveling at the lineup for what was then billed as the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.  You see, they had EVERYBODY!  Not only the classics, like the Jefferson Airplane and the Who, but […]