Netflix trailer: https://tinyurl.com/mr86e6rk I was into Everest before it was big. That’s what we used to say about rock acts in the sixties and seventies, like Yes, whose first album my dentist turned me on to and didn’t break through until two LPs later, really three, with “Fragile.” That used to be the process. You […]

https://rb.gy/tkiln8 I didn’t realize Taffy Brodesser-Akner was writing the Great American Novel until about halfway through. Before that, I was reading in fits and starts. I thought it was an out of control comic novel, until I realized it was not. And then I was driven to finish it. You won’t have the same experience […]

That’s how much people hated that Biden was the candidate. James Carville, Ezra Klein and the “Washington Post” wanted a mini-primary, a vetting of the Democratic candidates. But the truth is literally one minute after being told by Biden that he was dropping out, Kamala called her all potential opponents and asked for their endorsement. […]

I had an incident in the Caribbean twenty years ago and I really haven’t gone swimming since. Oh, I’ve been in people’s backyard pools with three year olds. But as far as entering what we used to call an “Olympic-size” pool, with a depth over my head and a distance from one side to another […]