Tom and I

The boy walked back to his classroom after performing with the school district band in the auditorium. He’d done this several times that year at other schools, but this concert was different—it was at his school. His friends, teachers, parents…

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Greens Gone Wild

So I watched an instagram video with a journalist standing out in front of the US capital building, excitedly proclaiming that conspiracy people have been right all along and his following story proves it. The government is spraying us with…

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Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'...

Stonehenge and the answer man

In 1991, I traveled with my future wife (who was British) to England. I was 34 years old and had never been abroad. My future in-laws offered to take me anywhere in England I wanted…

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This is your brain on Trump

If Donald Trump has a super-power – it is breaking the brains of progressive liberal democrats. Here in Los Angeles, I’m surrounded by progressive liberals and I’ve seen countless transmutations of formerly rational people into wild-eyed, raging lunatics because…Trump. Those…

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I Like Big Boats (and I cannot lie)

 

I went on my first real cruise recently. It was fun and a virtual Mecca for people watching. More specifically ‘cruise people’ watching. Cruise people could be considered a particular sub-species of great apes known as ‘Homo Piger Viator’ (the…

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Reminiscentiae

A highly organized classmate of mine had brilliantly set the stage for the FIFTIETH reunion of Montgomery high’s class of ‘75, and he did it so well that I felt compelled to dance around on it a little. Well, that…

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The Ultimate Exposure Gig

For those of you who haven’t noticed yet – I’ve decided to digitize my catalog of music and throw it into the gargantuan multitentacled global beast that is online streaming. It is remarkably easy: For about the cost of a…

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#Scromit

I wrote this shortly after Trump was elected in 2016. With Harris and Trump running neck and neck, the timing is right to revisit the biblical scale of insane whining and gnashing of teeth we can expect if he wins…

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