I was sitting at my desk, doing homework, listening to WABC broadcast the hits, when the music was interrupted with the news that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. I was alone. It was a shock. Because it came out of the blue, was completely unexpected. As was the shooting of RFK not long […]

From: Kevin Cronin Subject: Re: Fandom Hey Bob, Back in the Roaring Eighties, REO tour manager, now my personal manager, Tom Consolo was famous for his ubiquitous “roll of hundreds.” I once kicked and shattered an automatic plate glass door in the Little Rock airport, because it came too close to hitting me. (Of course, […]

The Epstein affair is not going to bring down Donald Trump. It’s a flashpoint for deluded conspiracy theorists and leftists who believe they’ve finally got him. But in truth, most people don’t care. After all, the man is DEAD! I could  go deeper and ask exactly what GOTCHA! they’re expecting, but I do not want […]

I’m just totally weirded out about getting old. No, scratch that, I’m just totally weirded out about being 72. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Almost all my contemporaries are in denial. They are over 70, but they’re acting like they’re in their forties, if not their thirties, as if they’ve […]