I don’t even know what kind of Bentley this was.  Other than it was white, had four wheel drive and 660 horsepower. Jamie Kitman.  Do you know him? I do.  He’s the irascible dude in "Automobile" magazine.  The contrarian who occasionally opines on the Op-Ed page of the "New York Times", about the fallacy of […]

I took a chance, I took a shotAnd you might think I’m bulletproof, but I’m not Silence. It’s always worst in a crisis.  Just ask Tiger Woods. Johnson & Johnson wrote the book on this, with Tylenol.  Remember the capsules with cyanide?  No? Proves the point.  J&J admitted fault, even though the company was not […]

There was a space in my bookcase where I kept my cash, waiting for four bucks to accumulate…then I went and bought an album, which I played again and again until I knew every cut, until I accumulated enough money to buy another, when I repeated the process.  You see, music was scarce. Now it’s […]

There was an interesting piece in the "New York Times" asking whether it was more important to win a Grammy or appear on the telecast.  In other words, do you remember who won Album of the Year or do you remember Pink flying high in the sky?  Grammys’ Weight Is Now Measured in Face Time […]