Next month Taylor Swift will be twenty.  She’s already had her heart broken, but she’s not quite aware how complicated and confusing life truly is, how you can seemingly be on top of the world and commit suicide, like Freddie Prinze, how you can be almost broke, but be beamingly happy. But Taylor does know […]

THE GRAND CANYON We were only on the South Rim for three hours.  Deploying at the Bright Angel Lodge. I hadn’t been there since 1966.  Needless to say, the Grand Canyon hadn’t changed.  It’s vast!  Far larger than you can imagine, almost too big to comprehend.  A huge hole with giant mountains resembling tits cropping […]

Well, there’s a bunch of service charges.  Can’t beat the Ticketmaster fees, the promoter’s got to get some of its money back. You know Gene ain’t parting with any of his! I’ll give the man credit.  Gene was 2010 back in the nineties.  With the coffin, the convention, he was all about superserving the niche.  […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the CMAs are better than the VMAs? One in which the big winner is an MTV castoff, considered to be too old and too unhip for the mainstream. No, I’m not talking about Taylor Swift, I’m talking about Hootie!  Yup, Darius Rucker! He […]