Classic Beach Boys – Spotify playlist Summer means fun. Or is it new love? Could be both. All I know is the season is synonymous with the group from Hawthorne, California, which only featured one surfer, but epitomized the west coast beach culture that not only permeated our country, but made us all want to […]

Feeling anxious about Dallas? How about Hillary’s e-mail scandal? Or are you still too busy bitching about Apple Maps. Forget your faux pas. Don’t even bother apologizing, especially if you don’t think you’re guilty and you’re only doing it for the crowd. What we admire most these days are those with a backbone who keep […]

“The Voyeur’s Motel” It’s an easy read and it’s fantastic. Ignore the controversy, within its pages Mr. Talese ponders the unreliability of his voyeur narrator. Hell, even if the whole thing were made up, and it’s not, Gay visited the motel and saw the viewing posts and looked in on the action himself, the insights […]

Surfing the new paradigm or tone-deaf? I’m not sure. Bernie Sanders captures the youth vote by appealing to millennials’ lack of opportunity, their mountains of college debt in a land of income inequality. The modern economy losers voted for Brexit and Trump won the nomination by appealing to those left out. Yet Twizzle Stick is […]