Today is my father’s birthday. He would have been 102. I didn’t expect him to live that long. I don’t expect to live that long. But I hope I don’t die at 70, like he did. But the weird thing is my dad’s birthday no longer feels weird anymore, I don’t get that pang, of […]

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT Even your friends, but go to the grocery store, sit on a train, ride the chairlift, bring up a band, a TV show, any kind of recreational activity, even the NBA and NFL…and the other person will give you a blank stare, they can listen to your story, […]

“Musk Claims Media Bias in Debate Over ‘Dilbert’ Creator’s Racist Rant – The Twitter chief waded into a scandal involving the cartoonist Scott Adams, as Twitter undergoes layoffs and struggles to lure back advertisers.”: https://nyti.ms/3ICvfwn It’s never been about money, it’s always been about power. But money can buy you power. You didn’t used to […]

This is one of the best rock documentaries ever made. Today, with everybody having a 4k video camera in their pocket, there’s a plethora of rock docs, done on the cheap, basically hagiography. You may start ’em, but it’s hard to finish them, your mind wanders, you shut it off… In today’s time-challenged on demand […]