Archive for 2014/01


The Most Important Thing You Will Read All Day

“Why Bitcoin Matters” I like smart people. I like to learn something. Which is why I don’t watch TV singing competitions, where no one goes on to glory and it’s only about the ratings and I’m more interested in seeing “Shark Tank.” That’s today’s world. Used to be everybody wanted to be a musician and […]

Leftovers

Why does some food taste better the next day? Pizza, Chinese, the sandwich I just ate… Days later, after marinating in their own juices, what might have been “eh” the first time around is positively delicious later. My mother was not a good cook. I’m not saying she had no admirable features. She was a […]

American Hustle

Mama never told me it would be like this. As a matter of fact, my mother still doesn’t know how the world works. Like most people, she wants to believe you work hard, marry right, put your nose to the grindstone and it all works out. But it doesn’t really happen that way at all. […]

Rhinofy-Come and Go Blues

I read Warren Haynes played “Come and Go Blues” at the Gregg Allman tribute. It’s hard to convey how big “Brothers and Sisters” was. Duane died in ’71, after Bill Graham had them close the Fillmore and their double album tour-de-force was released. But still, most people didn’t know who the Allmans were. No, that’s […]