BACK TO THE BARS Yesterday, Jerry Greenberg e-mailed an interview to me.  Reading to the end, I found it was hype for a new outfit he’s on the board of, once a promotion man, always a promotion man, but before I got there I read this, in response to a query whether video killed the […]

I got my merit badge. For every gig of the summer tour, all eighteen of them, Phish sells a merit badge.  Yup, just like the Boy Scouts…if you get ’em all, you can buy a sash, sew ’em on and show off. That’s what we used to do in the Boy Scouts. Yes, I’m an […]

I never thought the seventies could ever come back. For those too young to have experienced that decade, it was a long hangover, a period of cocooning after the twin tragedies of Kent State and the election of Richard Nixon.  "The Movement" was dead.  People retreated to communes.  They began farming.  Life became more about […]

What a great evening! We took the gondola into town…  You go up, and then you go…DOWN!  It’s like a thrill ride, definitely an E-ticket.  So steep.  Can’t wait to come here to go skiing. Meanwhile, we’re on the gondola with two other people.  One a stoner bike rider and the other a fortysomething woman.  […]