Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


My Nakamichi 582

1 Ed Cherney told me to toss it. But he was making peace with the fact that he was going to die in a few months. I told him a bit of the backstory and he laughed and reiterated his point. The Nakamichi 582 was the ultimate cassette deck. This ain’t no Sony, no AIWA, […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Velvet Sundown Look up the artist “Nick Hustles” on Spotify. This is clearly AI too. This person is using a 60-70’s Soul sound, but using lyrical content from today’s world. Pretty creative. 220k monthly listeners and 100k+ subscribers on YouTube. Why are people bitching? They feel they deserve to know if it’s AI […]

News You Should Know

I’m reading the news all day. I get up and check my phone for twenty to forty minutes, then I read three physical newspapers and throughout the day I surf the apps and the sites. Now in truth, there’s less and less in the physical newspaper that has not already been published online. However, you […]

You Can’t Reach Everybody

And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]