Former contributor to The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. Coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about rock and jazz in the "60s: "Music & Politics" and "Giants of Black Music."
Wed 29 Mar, 2006 09:44 am - One weathercaster called it a "must-see light and shadow show by the Old Master Himself," but I can't say this last solar eclipse was worthy of the recommendation. Not even total,... (view)
Sat 11 Mar, 2006 04:02 pm - (NOTE: PEOPLE WITH INTRACTABLE WEIGHT PROBLEMS THAT ARE CAUSED BY REAL ILLNESSES OR GENUINE CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES ARE EXEMPTED FROM THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION.)
Awhile back I wrote a short... (view)
Wed 24 Nov, 2004 07:40 pm - I was, I suppose you could say, in a PREpartum depression.
It started when my wife, Connie, decided it was time to have a baby. I was thirty-one and she was twenty-eight, a circumstance which I... (view)
Mon 1 Nov, 2004 10:00 am - I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd done something people regard as sick and disgusting and I wanted to disappear.
I should say... (view)
Sun 30 May, 2004 06:45 pm - It's time to take punitive action against an insidious and rapidly proliferating menace to our emotional well being. I'm speaking, of course, of "service industry" people who... (view)
Fri 27 Feb, 2004 12:56 pm - Can we, just for a minute, dispense with the hand-wringing and acknowledge that the problem Israel and the Palestinians have with one another is actually their mutual solution to the problem of... (view)
Fri 27 Feb, 2004 12:44 pm - Want to hear [i]my[/i] definitions of "insurance fraud"? I'll tell you anyway.
Insurance fraud is when an HMO sells you a policy at an exorbitant rate and then finds all manner of... (view)
Fri 27 Feb, 2004 12:09 pm - During my twenties and thirties it was my goal to have sex with every physical type of woman on the planet.
I'd prefer not to hear any stuff about this. I was proceeding from the belief... (view)
