Archive for 2018/06


The Triple Crown

My mother loved to watch sports. Especially golf. She knew all the players, was a member of Arnie’s Army, but only warmed up to Nicklaus when he won a major in his forties, old people cheer on old people. And when we were on the phone today, I told her I was going to watch […]

Howard Stern On Letterman On Netflix

Netflix is a club. Just like Howard Stern’s radio show. Occasionally Howard makes news, mostly while interviewing celebrities, the gossip columns go wild, but mostly if you don’t listen, you’ve got no idea what’s going on. But those who do… Kind of like Netflix. Now some news outlets noted that Howard’s appearance was going live […]

I Wanna Be Your Lover

The Very Best Of Prince Prince didn’t live up to the hype. Supposedly he was 16 or 17, certainly under twenty, and recorded all the instruments himself and produced too, we were unimpressed. McCartney had performed this trick almost a decade previously, sans the age, and the wizard, the true star known as Todd Rundgren, […]

WWDC

WWDC It was a nerdfest. The gold rush is over, tech is commonplace, the big companies won, you’re a user, not an early-adopter, and maybe you use Apple products. Or maybe you don’t. It’s the theme of our nation. The haves and the have-nots. It runs through politics and education and tech. Can you afford […]