I can’t hold back. So I pick that copy of "Newsweek" back up, I was stopped in my tracks when I read Stephen King’s To-Do list, and lo and behold, there’s a To-Do list from Patti Smith: 1. Learn serious horse riding from the polo club in Buenos Aires. 2. Ride across the Pampas of […]

I’ve only read one Stephen King novel, the rock-infused "Christine".  Oh, he’s a great storyteller, but I’m not much into the supernatural, and I’d like a little more flesh on the plot.  But Mr. King has won me over with his column in "Entertainment Weekly".  You see, he’s honest. It doesn’t take much to turn […]

From: Travis Page One thing I find odd about the fact that the music industry is doing so poorly is that no one, mainstream or otherwise, is mentioning one obvious cause. There is a lack of real competition within the industry. The general consensus among the media and those within the industry itself chalk up […]

As I exited onto 26th Street, after buying Dannon coffee yogurt and Caffeine Free Diet Coke at Ralphs, I heard the Real Time Newsreel on XM’s 60s on 6.  It was January 23, 1961, the date of President Kennedy’s inauguration. There was no school that day.  There was too big a snowstorm.  But by the […]