They broke the number one rule of the internet. You start from the bottom up. Downloads are anemic, because most people are unaware of the product, all the hype has been in traditional news outlets, and the readers of those might have credit cards, but they are not the target audience for a service like […]

Are you still scared? I’m not seeing anybody face to face, but my anxiety is greatly reduced. The facts are hard to synthesize…Garcetti and Newsom say self-quarantining is flattening the curve, but more people died in L.A. yesterday than ever before. But you don’t have to read the papers from cover to cover every day, […]

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir She got pregnant at twelve. Do all artists come from a fucked-up background? After all, if you’re loved and complete, what do you have to bitch about? Plenty, but not as much as the broken people. Kathy Valentine drank and drugged with her single mother, who […]

“The Dutch House” Ann Patchett This is a huge bestseller, and deservedly so. Most of the big sellers today are genre books, mysteries, thrillers and lowbrow stuff that cannot be recommended. But “The Dutch House” is a good old-fashioned story, about people and their lives. And just like real life, everything doesn’t always work out. […]