Can’t understand how you can be on TV but no one can see you. Having grown up with three channels, baby boomers can’t fathom five hundred. Gene Simmons trumpets the run of his “Family Jewels” show and it’s not even a footnote, to quote the Eagles, it’s already gone, and to quote Blondie, it certainly […]

And I wanna sleep with you in the desert tonight With a billion stars all around That’s when the polo grounds come alive, after dark, when the palm trees are swaying, the mountains are still discernible and the sky is covered with stars. I didn’t understand Palm Springs. Hell, I didn’t even know there was […]

I’m numb, both literally and figuratively, and not comfortably. Mama said there’d be days like this, when the best laid plans go to waste. Yes, plans. I have a birthday routine. Langer’s, a movie and a hot fudge sundae. It hearkens back to ’77, when I went with my girlfriend to the aforementioned home of […]

YOUNG Are friendly, they’ll talk to anybody. OLD Won’t talk to anybody they don’t know. YOUNG Believe they’re all in it together. OLD Are all about status. They want everybody to know they’re better than they are and will pony up for VIP access or anything that separates them from the hoi polloi, especially if […]