You want a #19. I have birthday traditions. You know how institutions of higher learning have all those rules you’ve got to follow for no good reason other than everybody before you did the same damn thing? Well, I’m my own stuff-shirted traditionalist, it all hearkens back to… 1977. Yup, that’s when I went to […]

I stole things. Or as my father would say, I LIBERATED THEM! That’s a term we used back in the sixties. It permeated the culture, kind of like “bling” and “baby mama” do today. Petty theft was seen as a way of sticking it to the man. But the stuff I stole would have no […]

Stay in school. I know, I know, David Geffen dropped out, as did Irving Azoff. Some of the biggest legends of the entertainment business never finished college, some didn’t even complete high school. But that was then, and this is now. The sixties were different. We lived in an homogeneous society. Social mobility was rampant. […]

I’m in shock. Actually, I’m in Vail, Colorado. For the final week of the ski season. Didn’t know that? All I can tell you is with a laptop and a smartphone, I can work anywhere. And when it comes to skiing, I refer you to Bad Company’s “Simple Man,” which so eloquently states “Freedom is […]