Apropos of Nothing

While we're on the subject of musical miracles, how about this one - the New York Dolls have made one of the best albums of the year, 32...

Even though it is still sinking in, there seems no doubt after early listens that Bob Dylan's Modern Times continues the remarkable ren...

One can always count on the California Legislature for a barrel of laughs during the final week of session, which ends at midnight on August...

There are no superlatives adequate to describe what Tiger Woods has accomplished in the last six weeks. Four consecutive victories, includin...

Three years ago, I worked on a project I called "The Desert Island Book Project," asking a group of friends and colleagues to iden...

For the review of Red Sonja , of course. "First, she [Sonja] must learn the ways of the sword from the Grandmaster, a character who l...

Number One: PJ Harvey on the Tonight Show I can't pinpoint the exact date, but it was sometime in the early 1990s, probably 92-93. Polly...

At this point I almost feel bad about our visit, it having come just as the Red Sox were enduring the Boston Massacre II. On my way down t...

Notes from a Sunday in Boston: - Three from our California contingent are staying at the Seaport Hotel , which is a fair distance from many ...

A contingent of folks from where I work is in Boston for four days to attend the annual ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) Co...

On our family vacation this year to Hawaii, we were walking down the main drag at Waikiki Beach, when we overheard the following from a dude...

As Dick Enberg would say, Oh my. The Cal football renaissance which began with the hiring of Jeff Tedford in 2001 has, for the first time, r...

“Elvis Presley was an explorer of vast new landscapes of dream and illusion. He was a man who refused to be told that the best of his dream...

“...if any individual of our time can be said to have changed the world, Elvis Presley is the one. In his wake more than music is different...

The full Phil Spector quote: “You have no idea how great he is, really you don’t. You have no comprehension - it’s absolutely impossible. ...

The concluding paragraph of Lester Bangs' famous obituary: “If love is truly going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, the...