I wonder if today’s generation has it better, with their parents telling them they’re gifted, that they’re worldbeaters, that they deserve success. My upbringing was different. One day a girl with glasses came to play with my older sister. Maybe my father was feeling the solidarity, since he was a lifelong glasses wearer, long before […]

I purchased "The Gulag Archipelago" before I learned how to pronounce his name. But I never read it. At this late date, I believe "Anna Karenina" to be the best book ever written, but when I attempted "The Gulag Archipelago", I had not read Tolstoy’s work, I was a Russian literature newbie. And I failed. […]

What I like most about this site is that the Dave Matthews Band hasn’t told anybody about it. Hasn’t issued a press release saying how cool they are, how much they love their fans. What I like almost as much is they haven’t sued someone to shut dontburnthepig.com down. The DMB is not as dumb […]

This is so much harder than Rock Band…you’ve got no idea. Rock Band is for weenies, you can set it up on easy and cruise along. Whereas the entrance fee to Guitar Hero is…ATTENTION, DEDICATION, PERSEVERANCE! I usually read the instruction booklet, I want a fighting chance. But so excited about playing, I breezed right […]