THE GRAND CANYON We were only on the South Rim for three hours.  Deploying at the Bright Angel Lodge. I hadn’t been there since 1966.  Needless to say, the Grand Canyon hadn’t changed.  It’s vast!  Far larger than you can imagine, almost too big to comprehend.  A huge hole with giant mountains resembling tits cropping […]

There are so many things wrong with Sirius XM I don’t know where to begin.  But it all starts with the programming. Distribution is king.  But arrangements have already been made with all the car manufacturers.  Sure, it’s important to get on new platforms, but if Sirius XM is banking on its iPhone app for […]

Conventional wisdom is musicians are fungible.  If one dies or quits, you just get another.  But players are not like cars, which you crash and then replace, they’re not like workers on an assembly line, in the best cases they’re unique, which is why we love them so, which is why their legends live on […]

I’ve got three things on my mind.  A television show, a book and a record. CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM Larry’s a repentant dick.  Jerry’s a comic who walked away and married someone else’s wife and hasn’t been as funny since.  Until last Sunday night. This season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is different.  Larry’s pushing it further, […]