Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


The Gingerbread House

I hate arts and craps. That’s what my sister Wendy called them, back when we all went to Camp JCC, in Stepney, CT. When you’re a six year old, riding the bus is a big thing. It picked us up in front of our house and escorted us upstate where at first our counselors were […]

Tricky Dick And The Man In Black

Tricky Dick and The Man In Black | Official Trailer This is utterly marvelous. Then again, would you expect anything less from two time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple? With cheap video equipment, today everybody is a documentarian, especially in the music sphere. But the result is oftentimes unwatchable, because of lack of talent. But not […]

I Am A Rock

A winter’s day In a deep and dark December I was freezing my balls off on the Tea Cup Express. The plan had been to ride the Orient Express up to the poma to ski Bolshoi Ballroom, but the light was so flat on the Poppyfields I decided to exit back to the front side, […]

D.C. Rap War

You don’t want to be dissed by a woman. Hell, Carly Simon built her whole career on it. “You’re so vain…” “After she returned to Capitol Hill, Ms. Pelosi said that for Mr. Trump, the wall was ‘like a manhood thing for him.’ ‘As if manhood could ever be associated with him,’ she said.” 5 […]