I was involved in a hit and run.  Well, more accurately, my car was.  I was somewhere else, just living my life, paying no attention. It happened in one of three places.  At the Bel Age Hotel, Lucques restaurant or in front of Felice’s house. I used to be super-vigilant.  Checking my car for injury […]

I almost went to the country Coachella, i.e. Stagecoach. How did country music become rock and roll?  Oh, they’re bitching about real country being squeezed off the airwaves by this pop sound, but this pop sound is close to what we listened to in the seventies, when acoustic guitars weren’t only for unplugged shows. How […]

So, what do you get, LCD or plasma? Plasma is sharper, with better blacks.  But LCD is better in bright light.  Then again, there’s that new Panasonic plasma with the matte finish, that shows no glare. How confusing! Have you watched anything in HD?  Makes you feel like you’re at the movies.  With that rectangular […]

If you weren’t at Coachella are you a loser?  Hopelessly out of touch?  Living in a world where the memo never gets to your inbox? It’s Bon Jovi night on "American Idol".  Funny to think that Jon Bongiovi was once a hungry musician from New Jersey who would do anything to make it, and now […]