Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


The World Series

It ain’t over til it’s over. That’s the defining characteristic of baseball. There’s no garbage time, no running out of the clock. Until the final out is made, the other team can always win. There was football when I grew up. I remember listening to the championship game in my mother’s Ford Falcon, where you […]

New Rules

NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING If your goal is world-domination, give up. Hell, people don’t even know about shootings these days. You’ve got to operate in your niche and hope to cross over but don’t expect everybody to know you or your work, it’s utterly impossible, the only one with 24/7 attention is Trump. POLITICS RULES […]

Me On CNN

Me On CNN Katherine Kendall was on after me. I was driving to the Troubadour the night before, flipping the news channels on Sirius, and I heard her story, about Harvey Weinstein chasing her around his apartment, about hiding out in a bar to get away from him. And here she was. I don’t work […]

More Eminem

Trump’s afraid to tweet back. That’s the power of entertainment, that’s the power of Hollywood, that’s the power of Detroit, that’s the power of art. My inbox is filled up with right wing denizens decrying the work of Marshall Mathers. Saying he sucks, that it doesn’t matter, that we must respect the President. They’re no […]