Tom Perrotta, “Nine Inches.” I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath.” I wish I could recommend it. But it’s flawed. The concept is not coherent enough and you start wondering re the cherry-picking of examples, I mean David Boies made it because of his dyslexia? And the problem with successful people, like Gary Cohn, […]

We want to go where everybody else goes. So I’m reading a story in today’s “Los Angeles Times” about redesigning the Dodger Dog, the hot dog staple served since 1958 that has not changed a whit. Turns out the Texas Rangers have a two pound concoction and Atlanta has a hot dog with cole slaw […]

I know, I know, they reinvented themselves as a country act, but it all began with the incredible first two tracks on the band’s debut. They were on Capricorn, need we know more? Yes, back when the Allman Brothers were the most credible band in the land, the thinking man’s Grateful Dead, before they broke […]

1. We just want someone to listen to us. My mother broke her hip, she’s in rehab, she wants to get out, but imprisoned she needs someone to listen to her story, I’m providing that service. That’s what we all want. Someone we don’t have to be our best self with. Someone we can reveal […]