Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Brian Wilson At The Hollywood Bowl

What could be better than hearing “Good Vibrations” on a hot summer night in America’s premier outdoor concert venue? Hearing “California Girls” for the very first time? “I Get Around” hooked me. I was an avid bowler. I lived to knock down the pins. I was in a league on Saturday and every Friday Mr. […]

Beautycon LA

They screamed every time Tana Mongeau spoke. Do you know who that is? I don’t either. The woman who runs Beautycon is a force of nature. I met Moj Mahdara at the Atom Factory, Troy Carter’s joint, it’s always the same people, investing in the new and different which you’d expect to be run by […]

Baton Rouge/Minneapolis/Dallas

Pigs. That’s what we called the cops in the sixties, before Nixon got elected on a law and order platform, blacks were incarcerated in unprecedented numbers and whites rallied around law enforcement. Oh, what a long strange trip it’s been. Life surprises you. It’s a good reason to keep on keepin’ on. If you’d told […]

Clinton E-Mail Server

She didn’t obey the rules. That’s another thing the working class believes in strongly, right and wrong, respecting the law, and the funny thing is most of us consider ourselves working class, or middle class, be sure to read today’s “New York Times” story on Wigan, a burg that always goes Labour that voted for […]