Thursday night I was having dinner at good friends’ in the Palisades when their daughter called from her car in Fullerton. She wanted her dad to bring her home. Kind of like an air traffic controller to a jumbo jet, she wanted instruction, security, she’d man the controls, but someone else would do the thinking. […]

“Demi Lovato gets owned by an X Factor candidate” (via Scott Perry) And while I’m cluttering your inbox… Hi Bob, I got a hearty laugh from Clearmountain’s quote. Both of my kids were conceived to Avalon. That album must be aural Viagra! Chris Washkau

I told myself I was going to spend all day reading, but I got hooked on these BBC documentaries, which I recommend. The first is on Roxy Music. Unfortunately, the second half, after the band reforms, is paint by numbers. But the first half, about the formation of the band, the motivation, is educational and […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a 66 year old ex-President trumps the younger generation in buzz? One in which one person knows it’s about ideas, and the other thinks it’s about money. I didn’t watch either. I’ve got the VMAs on my DVR just in case. As for […]