Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


The Landscape

Everything you’re told is big is actually getting smaller. You used to feel inadequate because you didn’t have enough money, now you’re made to feel inadequate because you just don’t know enough, when the truth is everything is less important and no one knows it all and no one knows what is going on. GOLDEN […]

More Morgan Wallen

Well that didn’t work. In case you’re out of the loop, or just don’t care, which is the case with so many who’ve canceled Morgan Wallen, “Dangerous” just notched its seventh week atop the “Billboard” chart. So if the goal was to ostracize Wallen, to kill his career, that hasn’t happened. What is the rule […]

A Coney Island Of The Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti died. Does anybody know who that is now? Back in the sixties they did not teach to the test. You still could not go to public school in the metropolis, but if you lived in the suburbs, there were fewer than thirty kids per class and there was enough paper for the mimeo […]

Morgan Wallen

When are we gonna let this guy out of the doghouse? Let’s get very specific here, and leave emotions aside. What Wallen said is vernacular that is used in the black community all the time, the N-word is a part of hip-hop culture and employed on recordings. That does not make Wallen’s usage right, but […]