Back when I lived in Buffalo, Mike Peters from The Alarm played a show at Nietzsche’s in Allentown. After the show, some friends and I were just hanging out at the bar up front when he came over and struck up a conversation. He stayed and talked with us like we were old friends, not […]

You had me at… ‘I don’t like dogs.’ Clearly not around food! First it was dogs on planes… and now every aisle at Whole Foods?? I’m not a dog hater … but damn. I swear, since the pandemic the number of people walking dogs has exploded… as has the need to dodge droppings on the […]

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yCx2gzgolz2sctLCC8NTe?si=2f94399bd6bc4eb4 1 I used to hear from him all the time. That’s what happens when you write something positive about somebody. But time passes and they have no more hits and you don’t, which is weird, because you still feel connected. I bought the initial Alarm EP when it came out in 1983. […]

I hate rich people. Because they’re so ENTITLED! I’m not talking about the oligarchs, I’m referring to the everyday rich. You know, the kind of people who don’t check the gas prices, who have seven or eight figure nest eggs and… Think they’re somehow better than the rest of us. I don’t know what it’s […]