We’re conditioned for nothing to go wrong.  We’re warned.  TV stops regular programming.  Tells us to look out. And then nothing happens. We feel so safe.  We drive automobiles with multiple airbags.  We wear helmets riding our bikes.  We’re protected.  It can’t happen to us. And then it does.  It fucks with something primal.  Something […]

Who’ll walk me down to church when I’m sixty years of ageWhen the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave "Sixty Years On"Elton John It was like a death in the family. Last week I watched the show at Monica and Gregg’s.  They’ve got one of those giant Pioneer plasma […]

It was the bit with the watch. For those of you not watching this HBO series, for those of you WITHOUT HBO, Turtle wanted the director of "Queens Boulevard" to listen to a track.  For his movie.  Being the indie prick he is, the director said no, he didn’t have time, he had to watch […]

What’s the aphorism?  The Iraq war is over and Iran won? We’ve been duped.  We’re in a war, a fruitless war, a losing war, a lost cause, worse than that a cause that is destabilizing a whole region making terrorism more likely, and the news media and the music business are just laying down. It’s […]