They were so untogether! We think of the Stones as a seamless machine, all-knowing, hoovering up cash from all over the globe. But back in ’69 they had a personnel change, they hadn’t performed in America since ’66, and they just weren’t sure they were relevant, that they’d be embraced by the newly-hippified States, having […]

The Power of the Dog I’m hooked on this book. And you could be too, maybe. It’s not the kind of thing I read, the “Baltimore Sun” called it a “thriller,” and I don’t read genre books, no mysteries, nothing plot driven, I’m looking for a volume to touch my soul, but I started reading […]

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life I feel like life passed me by. That I squandered my chance and I’m a loser in the new economy. You know, the STEM world, run by entrepreneurs. Money is everything and I ain’t got none. What did I do, where did I go wrong? Did I break the cardinal […]

The film business is fighting Sean Parker’s Screening Room. The book business is fighting Amazon’s Kindle. And the music business is sitting in the present, the most up-to-date media vertical extant. And yet people still complain. Do you want to pay $150 for a device that would allow you to stream first run films for […]