Los Angeles could be the most hated city in the country. Of course there is Houston, crippled by its lack of zoning, but L.A. is bigger, second only to New York, and it’s in California, which has been successfully vilified by the right wing. So why should anybody live here? As the story goes, L.A. […]

Last night I went to a gig and the opening act was bad. I don’t mean terrible, completely unskilled, but if you asked someone to leave the house for this…they wouldn’t. Oh, some people did. This was a club, holding a few hundred, and it was not full and this woman did her best to […]

Are the heartbeat of America. This is why we triumph. People come up with concepts, products, they innovate… Never underestimate execution. Ideas are nothing without execution. But the idea comes first. The problem is America does its best to squeeze out the creativity of its populace. Via education. Teaching to the book. It did not […]

It knocked the sh*t out of me. Literally. As you might remember, after taking the steroid dosepak, I was supposed to return to UCLA hospital for a follow-up cystoscopy three months later. Today was the day. I haven’t pissed blood since. So I was optimistic there would be no problem, but you never know. The […]