Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


What I Learned This Year

People make up their own facts, and if you call them on it they just double down. We live in a disinformation economy. The more data there is, the less we can come to a consensus. Media will follow an irrelevant story if it makes them rich. Donald Trump has absolutely no chance of becoming […]

The Bel-Air Starship

A Mansion, a Shell Company and Resentment in Bel Air And Gigi Hadid and her father Mohamed are media superstars. Not surprising in a nation where image is key, money trumps everything and the government needs to be drowned in the bathtub. Is this like FDR, the public was unaware he couldn’t walk, has America […]

December 8, 1980

I spent the night in the drunk tank. Ever been stopped for a DUI? You don’t want to be. And what’s worse is they expect you’ve been stopped before, that you know the routine, what to do, and when you don’t… The LAPD gets pissed. Well, let’s wind the clock back to 9 PM. My […]

Rubber Soul

The first thing you’ve got to know is the U.S. and U.K. releases were different. The second thing you need to know is I didn’t buy it upon release. It had no hit singles. Albums were a value proposition. “Rubber Soul” was the LP that broke the paradigm. But we didn’t know that yet. At […]