If this had happened even one year ago, it would be considered a big deal. But at this point, with iMeem streaming music, with music available free, with major labels having less power than ever before, it merits little more than a shrug. Now Mark Zuckerberg may have been revealed to be a barely pubescent […]

Vinyl is our HD. I was just sitting on the toilet, perusing the newspapers before I left the house for a doctor’s appointment, and I came across an ad for Panasonic Viera HDTVs.  And I started to wonder.  As the image gets better and better, why does the sound get worse and worse? Do we […]

I had to sit in the middle. I don’t know about you, but I’ll pay extra, switch flights, switch DAYS just to avoid flying in the middle. I was wondering if it was all psychological, then I was squeezed between a fat guy and Felice on the way home from Denver and it was BEYOND […]

I’m a bassist. Funny after all these years to discover your true instrument. Hell, I may not hold the neck vertically like Bill Wyman, but I find myself pulling the strings up with my fingers like so many classic bassists. Then again, they’re not really strings. There are no strings on this axe at all. […]