That’s how we got into this mess. Reagan legitimized greed and for forty years America has been beholden to the almighty dollar. If someone is rich, they’re beyond reproach. They’re job creators, they’re more worldly and more intelligent and if you knew your place you would get on the endless treadmill and start running… In […]

The expectations don’t square with reality. Bode Miller is forever tarnished by his failure to win medals in Torino, even though his trove of Olympic trophies is positively staggering. He didn’t measure up to the hype. Can anybody measure up to the hype? In business. But rarely in art. And almost never in certain sports. […]

Angela – Spotify Angela – YouTube The Lumineers were supposed to be a one hit wonder. I was in a race to make it to the dentist’s office in Beverly Hills. I was running late and the construction on Olympic was gonna make me later, always trust the map app, ALWAYS, as long as it’s […]

Can’t start a fire without a spark And all this time we were waiting for the musicians to lead. Illustrating not only the vacuity of the “artists,” but the lack of impact of their wares. In the sixties and seventies, even up into the eighties and nineties, the culture was driven by music. And for […]