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 […]

Everybody’s lost interest. It’s fallen down the charts. The audience has moved on. If this were a band, the pause in fighting would be perceived as a career misstep, a loss in momentum, something hard to recover from. You’ve got to agree that Taylor Swift knows how to fight a war. During a pause in […]

My inbox is filling up with angry naysayers telling me I’ve got no idea who Peter Gabriel is (although for some reason they seem to know, even though they’ve never met him), and the new album is great and I need to STFU and crawl back into the hole I came out of. Talk about […]

Peter Gabriel has a new album, are you gonna listen? Probably not. There was a time when a new Peter Gabriel album was an event, a great leap forward, remember when he opened the Grammys with “Steam”? I think it was the opening, maybe just during the show, I don’t remember, but I do remember […]