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."
Thu 4 Jun, 2026 06:00 pm - This time the news was completely delivered in under a minute, but I caught it and it made me rise from my seat.
“Yes!” I heard myself say to the TV. “Yes! Of course!“... (view)
Mon 18 May, 2026 10:21 am - If I ever see a shrink again it’ll have to be under a court order.
No, my rancor has nothing to do with what happened with Frieda. Not, of course, that what happened with her wasn’t... (view)
Sun 17 May, 2026 04:15 pm - All right, maybe my book fell a hair or two short of greatness. And, for sure, it hadn’t sold very well. Even my parents, I was quick to joke, waited until it was remaindered to buy their... (view)
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)
