People have got to stop dying. I know, I know, it’s the way of the world. But when you age, when the people you came up with start to die, it leaves you lost in a way that is not depicted in the news, it reinforces that everything is temporary, that most of the games […]

Is it because she’s a woman? Because she’s gay? Because she’s a New Yorker? Because she doesn’t have a manager? Because she is an intellectual? She KILLS every time she’s on TV, she has a rapier wit and a confidence nonpareil, aren’t those the elements of stardom? Maybe she missed her chance. She was hyped […]

Luke is eight. I love talking to the little kids. They answer you honestly, they miss the nuance, they’re fountains of information presented unfiltered and when Luke told me he was listening to TheFatRat I had no idea what he was talking about. He immediately told me he’d found him on his favorite YouTube channel, […]

Sometimes you’re too young to get it. Sometimes you haven’t lived long enough to understand art. You see the surface, but not the essence. Like me with the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin.” This was the height of the British Invasion. It was all Beatles all the time and we LIKED IT! Kinda […]