“ESPN Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field” A movement starts with an individual. I don’t know when our nation moved to groupthink. But maybe it was the anti-disco fervor of the late seventies that was its first visible exponent. When white males got together at Comiskey Park and blew up disco records, […]

“Birdhouse ‘Saturdays’ Official Trailer” It’s what I moved to California for. Once upon a time, skateboards had steel wheels. But then polyurethane came along and it changed the sport. I realized this in the parking lot at Mammoth Mountain in May of ’75. One of the locals insisted I try his new board. Which I […]

When did this become a thing? Like the lead in “Atypical,” my goal in life was just to SEE boobies, never mind all the time, everywhere. It’s a funny culture we live in now, one wherein the famous are merging with the hoi polloi. Did you see Ryan Adams’s twitter rant about Father John Misty? […]

We underestimate talent. Used to be we were looking for the unique voice, now me-tooism reigns. Maybe it’s the millennial ethos of fitting in, where boomers were all about being square pegs in a round hole, letting their freak flags fly. And technically, David Letterman is a baby boomer. Now most people leave TV and […]