“Up with the sun, gone with the wind She always said I was lazy” Actually that’s what my mother told me again and again, even after I was out of the house. I had to go to therapy to be set straight, the shrink said I was working ALL THE TIME! It just wasn’t the […]

You’ll have a hard time finding another person who listens to the same new music as you. Of course you can go online, or go to a gig and find acolytes of the same act, but the odds of going to work, hanging with friends, and finding commonality in new musical tastes is extremely rare. […]

I don’t plan to watch. Which is astounding if I look back to the past. The Oscars were a ritual. My mother would stay up late watching them. She was a movie buff, she used to go to these Judith Crist weekends. This was back when being a fan was enough, you didn’t need a […]

RE: SACRIFICE I have been wondering for some time what the differences are between a Russian and an American oligarch. The only thing I can think of is that in Russia the government tells them what to do but in the USA the oligarchs tell the government what to do. But in the end is there any real difference? […]