This is not about books. This is about corporations. And power. And the rights of not only artists, but individuals. There’s a fiction in America today that corporations are our friends. Amazon even pushes the paradigm by saying all its efforts are for us. Pitting writers against readers in a sideshow that deflects from the […]

INFORMATION OVERLOAD The twentieth century was all about scarcity, making it to the top and then dominating. Today there’s so much information that you feel inadequate. It’s an endless buffet that never closes where you find yourself unable to resist taking one more bite, yet still believe there’s something you don’t know. Distribution used to […]

Chatting with the Chopped Teen Tournament, Part 4 Winner The judges talked shit. Why is it that everybody believes their kid is a talented musician deserving the accolades of everybody and no one will tell a wannabe he sucks to his face? Felice is addicted to the Food Network. Because of my ongoing ass problems, […]

I came for the fantasy. Last night I stumbled into Felice’s house and she was watching “A Star Is Born” on TCM. I was instantly hooked because this is the way it was, when the stars were bigger and life in Los Angeles was better. I spent the latter half of the seventies at the […]