I thought it was only me. Having immune issues, I was locked up longer than most. And honestly, it took me a full year to recover. To not be anxious out and about. To decide to go out and about. And I know a lot of people who died. I found this was uncommon. Maybe […]

Don’t expect a plethora of protest songs to show up. I was just reading about the Kennedy Center honoring of Conan O’Brien, who got the Mark Twain Prize over the weekend. You’ll end up seeing it on Netflix, because that’s where comedy now lives, HBO squandered its lead, had its eye off the ball, the […]

1 I first heard about the Vietnam War from Marshall Drazen. It was 1964. We were at Camp Laurelwood. Well, actually we were on an overnight, off-site, gathering wood, and he said “You know there’s a war in Vietnam…” I didn’t. But Marshall had older siblings. Who told him about it. War? That was something […]

I’m sure you’ve seen the many videos and screeds interpreting Kendrick Lamar’s performance on Sunday night. I have no doubt that his show was inspiring, a victory lap for his fans. But unlike in the pre-internet era, not everybody is a fan of anybody, and assuming so is a fool’s errand. If you didn’t know/couldn’t […]