THE LETTER My introduction to rock music wasn’t on television, not even radio, but the jukebox, at the Nutmeg Bowl.  After a couple of strings I’d find myself peering through the glass, studying the tracks, waiting for my parents to pick me up. That’s where I first heard "Dawn (Go Away)" and "I Get Around". […]

The best Elton John album is "Tumbleweed Connection".  Released on the heels of "Elton John" and the huge success of "Your Song", "Tumbleweed Connection" had no singles and itself was soon followed by "Friends", "11/17/70" and at the end of the year, "Madman Across The Water".  Casual listeners are unaware of the record, but fans […]

I just finished reading the Millennium Trilogy. It wasn’t easy.  Richard Griffiths had to send me the "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest" from the U.K.  It was six hundred pages long.  But I savored every line.  As I was introduced to a new world that was eerily similar to my own.  Because, as […]

At the end of the first season of "The Osbournes", Kelly and Jack are riding in the back seat when they drive by McDonald’s and Jack suddenly implores Kelly to look, the McRib is back!  When his sister is unimpressed, Jack ends up telling Kelly it’s the little things in life, like Bode Miller winning […]