Once you tell somebody the way that you feelYou can feel it beginning to easeI think it’s true what they say About the squeaky wheelAlways getting the grease After my ex-wife moved out, I played certain CDs again and again. And they revealed meaning I never knew they possessed. I truly got "It’s Alright Ma […]

1. A&M and Island Records Yes, in the early seventies Steve Ross consolidated Warner, Atlantic and Elektra into one company. But not every label with hits was owned by a corporate behemoth. Pound for pound, A&M and Island had the best records.  After all, Island delivered Bob Marley to the masses.  What has that boasting […]

Really don’t mind if you sit this one out 1 I returned from spring vacation early.  In order to go skiing at Sugarbush with my mother and little sister. It was a glorious day in the April sunshine.  But, after dropping me back at Middlebury around dinnertime, my mother and Wendy got back in the […]

I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times nowI don’t know what I look like Voting was a trip.  In Santa Monica, you usually vote at somebody’s house.  But once a decade I go to the elementary school a couple of blocks away. First and foremost I couldn’t get a fucking parking spot.  For all the […]