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Now, don’t get me wrong. I love this film. It gives me a nice cathartic cry without fail at year’s end, and it also reminds me that I need to expand my posse (“Remember no man is a failure who has friends”). But this scene where Uncle Billy fumbles away 8000.00 is so painful, IContinue reading “Trivialities:”

I was living in Chicago when I hit my 40’s. And I was getting tired of haunting the same old bars, doing mostly the same old thing with pretty much the same old crowd. So I started taking guitar lessons at the Old Town School of Folk Music (OTSFM). It was a magical place backContinue reading ““The Five Things””

As I looked more closely at this comic coaster portrayal of the despicable and abhorrent and cowardly and smug and oleaginous and duplicitous and prevaricating — you could literally teach an SAT prep class on pejoratives with him — Ted Cruz (R-Texas), I homed in on the GOP elephant sitting at the bar. Notice thatContinue reading ““The Dregs””