“Lake Life” “One By One” Highbrow or lowbrow, take your pick. We are deep into this Korean show on Netflix, “Stranger.” Felice says it can’t be recommended, I’m on the fence. First and foremost, not only is it in Korean, it’s the densest series I’ve ever watched, at some point you just have to let […]

The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma These books always suck. A friend, or the writer himself, believes someone with a foothold in the music business once upon a time, even a household name, deserves to have their story written and the result is…unreadable. First and foremost because the author can’t write. And they don’t understand one […]

“The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win” If you play poker, you must own this book. If not…there are a lot of psychological lessons which you’ll find interesting, although they tend to interrupt the narrative of the book. Also, if you don’t play poker, or are a newbie, at […]

I’ve got three copies. Two e-mailed, one sent by iMessage. And the book business keeps raising digital prices and trying to keep the paradigms of the past in place. The dirty little secret of the book business is most people don’t want what they’re offering. And when they do, piracy/copyright infringement is as big a […]