The Police Music is life, and life is music. I’ll start with myself. I have been a musician for 35 years, and nothing has trained me in the thrilling, often […]
10. Emma’s home invader prepares to flee the scene via V.I.P. helicopter.
9. Annals of Music: How the late, great rapper Guru spoke to me.
The artist Guru (an acronym for Gifted. Universal. Rhymes. Unlimited), born Keith Elam in Boston, yearned to live in Brooklyn, New York where I holed up after college. In a […]
8. Annals of Economics: Why hedges are smart, i.e., the punch bowl has been removed, but Matt Damon is still punching.
In 1966 the Fed was run by William McChesney Martin Jr. who famously compared the central bank to a chaperone that ordered the punch bowl removed just when the part […]
7. As SNL winds down, remembering original cast member Mike O’Donoghues’ dangerous brilliance.
How unconscious does someone need to be not to have heard of SNL? Basically comatose. But who is Michael O Donahue and what does he mean to the show? Can’t […]
6. Emma fights back with nunchucks and kicks after Judge E. destroys her home.
5. Annals of Culture: Why are good movies worth stealing? A very brief, semi-autobiographical history of soft-core movie piracy.
I’d really like to watch Michael Tolkin and Leslie Greifs’ new miniseries The Offer on Paramount+. The problem is I don’t have a Paramount+ streaming account, and am short of […]
4. The Annals of Current Events: What’s in a slap? (snowflake alert: this may offend some people)
Right about now you’re thinking ‘not another post about Will Smith slapping Chris Rick.’ People are putting up memes everywhere on social media making comic light of Will Smith’s white […]