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House of Cards

If it was on HBO, it’d be the biggest show on television. Ambition and intrigue, the linchpins of modern life. Throw in a little gossip and you’ve got the local office as well as the White House. It’s universal. We’re all trying to get ahead and get along. But there are early adopters and those […]

Close Call

I almost got killed last night. And that’s the truth and it was totally my fault and I’m still shaking. Because you feel so alive after the Grim Reaper’s scythe misses you but you don’t stop being haunted by what almost was. So I was meeting a friend at the Moon House, the Chinese restaurant […]

Bob Casale

Used to be our heroes O.D.’ed. Now they die of old age. Once upon a time Devo remade “Satisfaction” and after taking us back in time, devolving to a sound earlier than the art rock and corporate tunes that dominated the airwaves, they broke ground in video and inspired us by demonstrating that art is […]

House of Cards

Don’t block my way as I’m climbing the greased pole. Did you read the story about Wendi Deng in “Vanity Fair”? Wherein it states that Rupert Murdoch divorced her because she slept with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt? You know Tony, the titan with the six-pack. But Schmidt? The goofy guy with the bad complexion […]