WHOLE FOODS: Your observations don’t apply only to the rich.  We have a total breakdown of civil society – especially in Los Angeles.   It’s all ‘me first.’   No effort for the common good. I recently broke a bone in my foot.  When I went to my office Downtown,  I took the subway.  As I hobbled […]

Back when I lived in Buffalo, Mike Peters from The Alarm played a show at Nietzsche’s in Allentown. After the show, some friends and I were just hanging out at the bar up front when he came over and struck up a conversation. He stayed and talked with us like we were old friends, not […]

You had me at… ‘I don’t like dogs.’ Clearly not around food! First it was dogs on planes… and now every aisle at Whole Foods?? I’m not a dog hater … but damn. I swear, since the pandemic the number of people walking dogs has exploded… as has the need to dodge droppings on the […]

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yCx2gzgolz2sctLCC8NTe?si=2f94399bd6bc4eb4 1 I used to hear from him all the time. That’s what happens when you write something positive about somebody. But time passes and they have no more hits and you don’t, which is weird, because you still feel connected. I bought the initial Alarm EP when it came out in 1983. […]