Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


The Overwhelming Decade

There’s just too much of EVERYTHING! We’ve got the world at our fingertips, yet we know less than ever before, lack control not only of our government and society, but our personal lives too. We have fear of missing out, but we’re not sure what’s worth doing. The old admire the young and the young […]

All Hell Breaks Loose

“Bedlam Erupts In House Floor Standoff Over Gun Control” Looks a lot like Napster, dontcha think? Oh, the history of that file-trading service has been rewritten. Almost two decades later it’s seen as techies running roughshod over institutions, a free for all with free music for everybody. But the truth is its success was evidence […]

Making It

How rich is Donald Trump? One of the first rules of Hollywood is to ditch modesty, whether true or false. In a land where no CV is necessary, where hustlers reign and people lie about their educations if they went to college at all, he or she who doesn’t say they’re the best ever is […]

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone

Jimmy Page is 72. I don’t know whether he ripped off Spirit, whether he and Robert will be held accountable by the jury, but I do know there will come a time when both of them won’t be here anymore. Or they will be, but they’ll be too infirm to play. Been a strange year […]