You don’t do that anymore. Nor do you turn it forward. Back in the seventies, when going to the movies was still a thing, and L.A. shows were at eight sharp and after ten, I went with my girlfriend for a pizza at La Barbera’s. It was torn down and been replaced by an apartment […]

Bird Scooters I saw two on my walk to the grocery store. All I had to do was scan the QR code and away I’d go. But I didn’t. They say that California is passe. That it’s too expensive to live here. That we have Blue Stateitis. Used to be California was a paradise, a […]

There’s only room for one majordomo, and it’s not him. People forget that Jimmy was an independent, a record producer, who ultimately teamed with Ted Field to start a label, i.e. Interscope. And ask someone under thirty if they know who Field is, I doubt it, he’s a footnote, although Ted did have a great […]

Blame it on distribution. This is the year we discovered Facebook and Google were the enemy. We were taught for so long that content was king that we forgot he or she who presents the news is the ultimate arbiter. And what we’ve got is a skewed picture. Meanwhile, the traditional news organizations impacted society […]