We live in a disinformation economy. Entrenched powers employ flacks who utilize their relationships to tell untrue stories to convince you to believe them. The number one major label saw? NO ACT HAS EVER BROKEN ON THE INTERNET! Wrong. Have you heard of the Weeknd? Used to be these acts were anointed, your goal was […]

So I’m watching the George Harrison special and I’m staggered to learn he grew up in a house without electricity. But it was worse. Heat was one stove, fired by coal, could that have contributed to his cancer? And then they go to Hamburg, where Klaus Voormann talks about seeing the Beatles on the Reeperbahn. […]

"The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile." -Italian journalist Corrado Alvaro, quoted in the Sydney Australian Via "The Week" This is what bothers people. The belief that the game is rigged, that if they play by the rules they just can’t win. And winning […]

So I’m listening to William Shatner on Howard Stern. And he says he owes his career to saying yes, if anybody asks, that’s what he says. He’s open to any idea, because you never know the end result. That didn’t sound right to me. Because if it’s not right, I don’t want to play. It’s […]