Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Berlin

Not the city, not “Babylon Berlin,” but the prequel to “Money Heist.” Did you know about it? I didn’t even hear they were making it, but earlier in the week I saw a listing in the “New York Times” saying it was premiering on Friday and made a mental note to check it out. Last […]

Re-Kennedy Center Honors

You’re completely correct about the changing paradigm of what people watch on television. At least as far as my own kids are concerned. My daughter and her husband are 33. When I visited them this past September I was surprised that they did not have cable. Their subscriptions were Disney, Hulu, and Netflix. That was […]

Re-The Slate Skiing Article

Rhetorical question? It’s because our brains are still wired to 10,000 years ago. When change nearly always meant danger, trouble, and even death. It’s why people long for the good old days when houses were cheap and breast cancer was a death sentence and college was cheap for the lucky few who could get in […]

The Slate Skiing Article

“Epic Fail: How a Corporate Duopoly Ruined Skiing”: http://tinyurl.com/2xxrfkub Skiing hasn’t been this cheap in decades! But that doesn’t stop old-schooler Gordon LaForge trashing the new model in a nostalgic play for days that in fact were much worse. Kinda like MAGA if you think about it (and if you castigate me for mentioning politics, […]