That’s what my car thermometer just said. Now if I was in Vail, that would be a heat wave, get any warmer and the snow might get too slushy to ski. But in L.A? The weather is backwards in L.A. I remember working at a summer camp in the White Mountains. By time you get […]

They used to dominate the music landscape. People who were the “other,” who seemed to march to a different drummer, whose values were different from those of the rat race. Like Woody Guthrie. Like Bob Dylan. Like the Rolling Stones. Sure, eventually the Stones became members of the glitterati, but we laughed about it, how […]

Felice asked me if I ever rode the horse outside the supermarket. I said yes. Although I then thought about it. Surely I had, but most times my mother declined to honor my request to plug in a dime. In return I asked Felice whether she remembered parcel pick-up. I got a blank stare. Then, […]

Corporations are the enemy. I would have expected this message to come from the arts first. But the arts have been infiltrated like PBS. Whether it be corporations supporting that which the public does not, or musicians sucking up to the man to get paid. But AOC doesn’t get paid. She was a bartender before. […]