The last time I bought a turntable was this weekend. Forty one years ago. My parents told me I could buy the stereo of my dreams as a college graduation present, but having the traveling gene I declined, until I ended up in Los Angeles going to law school and took them up on their […]

“You Shook Me All Night Long.” We don’t have records like this anymore, from unheralded acts that end up being ubiquitous, liked by everyone, living forever. Well, maybe “Despacito” fits this bill, Luis Fonsi has been working in the trenches forever and a lot of people know it and maybe it’s a harbinger of what’s […]

She’d pulled away. Relationships are funny. You’re together, then you’re not. But it’s the in-between that flummoxes you. I always believed in living together. It made it that much harder for the other person to move out. One argument was not definitive. But once I was married I thought it was… Forever. Because my parents […]

It was not entertainment, it was life itself. Yesterday we had to drive down to Rancho Santa Margarita for a birthday party, a two year old’s birthday party, the daughter of my nephew Andrew, who’s become the #3 BMW salesman in America, there I am boasting, I won’t for myself, but I will for him, […]