Archive for 2015/06


The Chunnel

There’s an animal on the track. Or a train derailed. Info is sketchy, all I know is the Eurostar is delayed, so I figured I’d weigh in with a report. Greetings from London, England. Where I went with Felice’s family for a screening of “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” at the Royal Albert Hall. Amazing to see […]

Rhinofy-Can’t Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan’s 1972 debut gets no love, despite having two smash hits and a legendary track. Possibly this is because it features multiple lead singers. This was before we knew that Steely Dan was charting its own course in the history of rock and roll, positively sui generis, and all the talk is about the […]

Twitter Transition

Maybe Twitter’s unfixable. Maybe it’s a fad like MySpace. Something gee-whiz, brand new, that is succeeded by a platform with more functionality. Twitter told us we want instant news. But it never turned into a comprehensible service. It’s the internet at its worst. A small enterprise where you communicate amongst your circle, with a bit […]

Apple Music

It’s toast. Its success was based upon eliminating free. But that positively non-techie entity known as the government put the kibosh on that. Now the labels and Apple are too scared to enact their plan of eliminating freemium. So while the techies leap ahead, creating solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had, those […]