“Tune Out the Noise”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T98825bzcKw I’m intrigued by finance, but I’m not interested in it. Meaning I want to know how it works, but I don’t want to spend any mental energy in investing. I don’t want to become a day trader, which is a fool’s errand. I don’t want to buy and sell stocks […]

MTV had it right. You don’t age with the audience, you pick your target demo and recreate your product to appeal to them. Otherwise, you die. Of course MTV died anyway. Superseded by music video on the internet. But everything is time-stamped, don’t you know? But for a few decades there, MTV ruled not only […]

We are looking for great. I spent all day in the cancer ward at Cedars getting an infusion of IVIG for my pemphigus foliaceus. As the fourth doctor I saw in eighteen months who finally diagnosed it said… Don’t Google it. In any event, IVIG cleans out the toxins from the blood so you itch […]

Subject: Re: More Fires Hi Bob, A friend just sent me this link, it’s to a googledoc spreadsheet that lists over 400 musicians and music industry people and other creatives who lost their homes.  I thought you might want to see it, if you haven’t already. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jyJ-NM2qP-iRk1LJ8l3dc7e0M3IhHlo3E7Agvo9JOAQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0 The sheer scope of it hits home harder […]