This weekend’s time waster. It’s a fad.  A program to be superseded like spell checkers were incorporated into word processors, like Microsoft wrote its own browser to kill Netscape.  But right now, IT FEELS SO GOOD! Here’s the story.  A guy wrote a program that searches YouTube and Last.fm and creates a Web-based Spotify.  Free.  […]

Huh? Who cares! Just like our country, NARAS is run by an ineffectual President beholden to old, monied interests who refuses to lead and leaves the public out in the cold, completely absent from the equation. Once upon a time, the Grammys became relevant because the mainstream merged with the hip during the MTV era […]

Radioactive toy Turn it up! Yesterday I got an e-mail from Lou.  Was I the same Bob Lefsetz who worked at Camp Tohkomeupog in the summer of ’71? I went to Jewish camp growing up.  Where the focus is more on the social than the physical.  And I’m not gonna complain much about that, everything […]

I love driving in the winter. In the summer you’re battling the heat.  You’ve got to drive long enough to have the a/c kick in.  You’re always trying to get cool.  But in the winter, it’s cold outside, but inside, with the sun entering the windshield you’re warmed like a piece of bread in a […]