I started reading the new Pynchon book. It got good reviews and I love him in principle, he’s disconnected, he’s a writer, he doesn’t need the penumbra, the media profile. Then again, I bought “Gravity’s Rainbow” and never made much headway, never mind “The Crying of Lot 49.” So I’d just finished this book “The […]

The story for me is how out of touch the press is. The right said Trump had a mandate. The left said the party had to run to the center. And everybody in the pundit class, everybody in D.C., seemed to have no understanding of the mind-set of the people. And the question arises, if […]

Tonight they want to party like it’s 1999. Because they sure as hell don’t like the era they’re living in. If you’re expecting new protest songs…don’t hold your breath. Gen Z is looking for escape. They’ve been beaten down by a society that seems not to understand them, that actually has contempt for them, and […]

This is the one you’ve got to see. Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is the one getting all the hype, but “The Perfect Neighbor” will get to you. This is America. My favorite story about a bad neighbor was told to me by Al Kooper. I was complaining to him about my problem neighbor […]