Pull back the bedroom curtains, Friday, February 25, 7am. Pouring, howling, blowing rain. Due to leave for Los Angeles at 9am. It’s Oscar time, again,…
Posts published in “Essays”
“In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a first-class education,” President Obama famously declared in his 2010 State of the Union Address,…
On Tuesday, March 20, I was given a lesson in just how broken the people’s business is in Sacramento. Along with 180 other participants to…
It’s hard to believe that Vern Piver is gone, especially with baseball season coming on. He was one of the last links to a now…
When I was a kid in Southern California back in the 1970s, I had a pal up the street whose dad taught chemistry at the…
I was the only child of elderly parents. They both died the year before I evolved out of puberty, and I was left in the…
Where there is sugar, yeast will find it — and so we have alcohol. The natural wonder we call fermentation has been discovered and replicated…
Judi Knew Mike Bombed Her by Crawdad Nelson (Ed note: Darryl Cherney is in the news lately for a hagiographic, and thoroughly dishonest, film he's…
The man credited with convincing the global consumers that it is worth the effort and money and environmental degradation to condense their music libraries onto…