Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Zodiac

Honestly, I had no idea what the movie was about. So we’re sitting in Felice’s living room, at about 6:15, and I tell her we have to get out of the house, that we should go to see a movie. We debated this the weekend before, and Felice said there was nothing playing.  But I’d […]

Lonely Traveler

1 My favorite record store was Granny ‘N Grammy.  Every Friday afternoon, after Evidence, I would drive my car to Westwood and prowl the streets looking for a parking space.  Even though Westwood in the seventies was the Third Street Promenade, CityWalk and Hollywood & Highland COMBINED, I could always find a spot.  This was […]

The Hour With George Stroumboulopoulos

I got bumped by David Foster. Well, not exactly.  You see I was supposed to tape "The Hour" yesterday at four.  But mere hours before I was supposed to leave L.A. I got a message, could I come EARLIER?  Like TWO? Well, I had a lunch that had been planned for weeks.  And it’s hard […]

Moe

Today is my dad’s birthday.  He would have been 85 years old. Funny, when he died at 70, I thought that was a pretty good run.  Now I’m not so sure. It wasn’t marked on my calendar.  I wasn’t anticipating it.  But when I placed my watch on the counter yesterday, to time how long […]