1 I’m not usually up at this hour. So I’m cruising down Sunset after a hike in the mountains last night, I’m going about forty, listening to the radio, feeling good because the shop got new liners for my ski boots, and the battery light comes on. Even weirder, the car seems to die. Or […]

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0TNSFR0EEK92QB9GUIJXFHVLOZ I can’t even find a YouTube trailer, not one in English anyway. There is no heavy lifting here, this series is on Prime Video, and everybody has Amazon Prime (don’t e-mail me if you don’t, keep making those calls on your flip phone/dumbphone). Owen Sloane e-mailed me about it. And I rarely hear from […]

“What was the song of the summer? Here are nine candidates” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-09-21/song-of-the-summer-olivia-rodrigo-karol-g Doesn’t that prove the point, that there is no song of the summer if there are nine possibilities? Furthermore, as you read this list, if you don’t find names you’ve never heard of, you’ll definitely find songs you’ve never listened to. So what […]

1 I was reading the new issue of “Mojo” in Apple News+. Yes, it’s available there, but usually I don’t bother, the old acts are still old and over thirty-odd years they’ve written about them already and now all we have is people who weren’t there commenting, and I was. But even worse is the […]