8:46 – Dave Chappelle 20,293,000 YouTube views. What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a comedian has more reach than any musician? One in which Chappelle is trusted by his audience, because he’s never lied to them. Chappelle’s got a long history of going his own way. Most notably when he […]

Severance: A Novel I found out about it through “Rolling Stone.” The last three episodes of the second season of “Ramy” are ASTOUNDING! The second season does not start off like the first. There isn’t as much humor, there’s a lot of religion. I was wondering if I’d written about the series too soon. And […]

It’s Napster. What do we know about Napster? It happened as a result of technological change. Same deal here, but instead of high speed connections, it’s smartphone cameras. In the late nineties and early 2000s, only college students had high speed connections. The public came along later. Same deal with smartphones. Sure, some had them […]

Everyday People 1 There’s a joy in playing music. We were inspired to buy electric guitars after seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan,” but we’d been struggling with acoustics for a long time before that. In an era where music was not plentiful, just a click away, you had to make your own. A piano […]