It was devastating. You’ve got to understand, my first record was "Martian Hop", I loved the Four Seasons, in 1964 I became a Beatle fanatic. Elvis Presley was for old farts, even when he came back. Still, I remember exactly where I was when I heard he died. Waxing my car outside my apartment on […]

1 I saw the ducks. It’s a ritual at the Peabody Hotel. The Duckmaster parades them out of the fountain down a red carpet into the elevator, which takes them to the rooftop, their nighttime abode. You can miss it, but I was in the neighborhood at the right time, five o’clock. I found out […]

I’m going to Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee… The guy on the plane next to me was in the Air Force. He got a call last night to deploy to Tennessee to fire satellites. I asked him if he was afraid of being killed. He told me he put himself in the line of fire so […]

1. I saw a man with forty six Lean Cuisines. I counted them. This was actually on Ventura Boulevard, at the Ralphs. I went there in search of Dannon Coffee yogurt, which turned out to be on sale, so I didn’t want to use self checkout, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I wanted to […]