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 […]

Scary Old Sex I read with my phone. Not on my phone, although I do a ton of poking and scrolling during the day. But when I read a newspaper or a magazine or a book I’m constantly looking things up, I want a richer experience, I want to know who these people are. Like […]

Everybody comes from somewhere. Does everybody feel inferior and inadequate? I do. My mother always told me someone else was the expert, knew better, and I couldn’t compete. My father would lionize outcasts, with glasses and straight A’s, and it drove my older sister nuts, she still feels like she’s competing with Kathy Eckber. So […]