Archive for 2024/08


The God Of The Woods

https://shorturl.at/Y8UHr Ultimately this is a mystery, but it doesn’t read like one. First and foremost it is set in a summer camp. Where I spent some of my best years. And that’s why I started reading it, and on that note it worked, but “The God of the Woods” is so much more. Generally speaking […]

There Is No Top Forty

It all comes down to exposure. An organized market. Wherein you focus a huge slice of the public on a certain number of artists. That no longer exists. We had radio, we had MTV, now we have chaos. We were shown this was going to happen with Napster. Napster illustrated that the public was in […]

Mountain Queen-The Summits Of Lhakpa Sherpa

Netflix trailer: https://tinyurl.com/mr86e6rk I was into Everest before it was big. That’s what we used to say about rock acts in the sixties and seventies, like Yes, whose first album my dentist turned me on to and didn’t break through until two LPs later, really three, with “Fragile.” That used to be the process. You […]

Long Island Compromise

https://rb.gy/tkiln8 I didn’t realize Taffy Brodesser-Akner was writing the Great American Novel until about halfway through. Before that, I was reading in fits and starts. I thought it was an out of control comic novel, until I realized it was not. And then I was driven to finish it. You won’t have the same experience […]