MILES DAVIS Used to call Nile Rodgers on the phone every night, saying “Write me a ‘Good Times.’” Nile’s point being we all want mass success. Nile used to be a jazzer, but then his mentor said “You’re too good for pop?” If millions love it, it can’t be bad. And Nile went home and […]

That’s where I am, home of the world’s tallest people. Everybody could play in the NBA…or the WNBA! I’m in the rest room tonight and I’m urinating UP! It reminded me of nothing so much as elementary school, when my third grade class was in the junior high wing and the bathroom seemed to be […]

“According to Nielsen, from data provided by managers at Nielsen SoundScan, which collects recorded-music sales information, of the eight million unique digital tracks sold in 2011 (the large majority for $0.99 or $1.29 through the iTunes Store), 94 percent – 7.5 million tracks – sold fewer than one hundred units, and an astonishing 32 percent […]

Old fart hates change, what else is new? So I went to the Mill City Museum. Once upon a time they had sawmills on the Mississippi. Back before they cut down all the Minnesota timber and other states got into the lumber act. But if Luddites like Byrne were in charge, we’d still be sawing […]