I read in the "Wall Street Journal" that bowling is making a comeback.  I’m not talking about the wii version, which is almost as good as the real thing, but the one with the sixteen pound balls and the oiled lanes.  The one I was religiously addicted to in the early sixties. That’s where I […]

My favorite Christmas record is the Waitresses’ "Christmas Wrapping".  But it’s not the song I hear in my head every holiday season.  That’s Laura Nyro’s "Christmas In My Soul". The decade from 1964-1974 represents the musical Renaissance.  There was only one Renaissance in painting.  It’s not like artists dropped their brushes and drills thereafter, it’s […]

In the cool of the evening when everything is gettin’ kind of groovy I didn’t think the Classics IV were cool until I discovered the Atlanta Rhythm Section had morphed from this prior group.  I always thought they were some studio concoction from L.A., not a real band, whose hits were written by committee by […]

Lewi wondered where the money was going to come from.  Diarmuid said that the winners used to pay for the losers at Warner Brothers, but now the extreme winners have gone indie and there’s not enough cash for R&D.  What a dilemma! Marty said all you had to do was release the equity in the […]