Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


The Twitch Leak

“Twitch Data Leak Confirms The 100 Highest-Paid Streamers”: https://bit.ly/3BHf7F2 Don’t get into music for the money. There’s just not that much. Which is another reason why there are no bands, there’s not enough money to go around. Best to cut your track on your computer alone in your bedroom, post it online and see if […]

Credibility

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have none. Why? BECAUSE THEY TOOK THE MONEY! There’s a canard in the twenty first century that selling out is cool, that the public expects it, that there are economic advantages and no damage is done to your career. This is patently untrue. I’m completely disillusioned with what is going […]

Muhammad Ali

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/muhammad-ali/ Are you watching this? You’ve got to. Even though I wasn’t going to. I came home from hiking on Sunday night and Felice said she’d watched the first episode. I had no interest, I lived through it, I knew enough about Muhammad Ali. And there’d been so many other movies and documentaries, what else […]

9/11

1 It was a musical turning point. I found out about the attack on the Twin Towers from Kate, she called and invited me to her house to watch TV, we needed to all be together. And then I woke up my computer. It was a Power Mac G4. I’d started with a Mac Plus […]