Mohammed Rafi
My friend Gina posted this on FB with the comment that if she ever became a Bollywood star, she would dance like this, to which I replied that it’s a wonder that her head didn’t fall off....
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My Answer to Bryan Appleyard’s ‘On Andy Warhol’ in the Tale of ‘Four Parisians’
I’m a contrarian, so I’m always surprised when anyone understands what I understand about the world; but it appears that Bryan Appleyard has written an article that aligns so closely with my feelings...
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Another Response to A Friend’s Defense
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the...
View ArticleThe Music Man
The Music Man is my favorite musical from my childhood. It came out the year I was born, and when I was very young, my parents shipped me off the the library, where they played movies for kiddies so...
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Welcome Back to Me! (with Changes)
Hello, friends. Long time, no see. I’ve been working on my next book, and I haven’t had time to write anything in months. There are two reasons for this. First, I’ve been writing an academic book, and...
View ArticleItalian Language and Censorship
UPDATE A day after I posted this, my comment appeared on the Che Futuro web site. Hmm. —– I am almost done with my next book and will start blogging immediately after I am done, but the last part of my...
View ArticleMy Three Lives
There is nothing new for regular readers of this page, but as I am getting past the horror of indexing my latest academic book (most horrible experience of my writing life), I decided to get started...
View ArticleBusiness In and Out of America
As an English major (a weekend major) who found himself with a weekday job and the skills to negotiate the very different set of rules that obtained in business (the classic weekday major), I found...
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Why I Wrote Poker Tales
My friend Adam over at Dear Dirty America asked me a question on Facebook this morning about why I set my book of Poker Tales in Las Vegas, where he has just been. I told him there that I had the same...
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Handsome Boy Modeling School
Okay, here’s another post on why I find modern art’s lyrical direction so problematical. It has nothing to do with the music or its experimental aspect, both of which I said last week that I enjoy....
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Art Rock Suite
If anybody is interested, here is my favorite parody of the music I grew up listening to in my teens. This was long before Christopher Guest was famous as a member of Spinal Tap, (listed on Amazon as...
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Betty Davis
I obviously have not had a lot of time this year to keep posting regularly, and for that I am sorry. I have been putting the finishing touches on my next book as well as trying to write 201 (or more)...
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Taylor Ware, Yodeling Star
I took the summer off from blogging because I was finishing up a book on a subject you never heard of and didn’t have time to write. During that time I found an article on how blogging was slowing...
View ArticleLatin Hungarians
I’ve never heard of Tatrai Tibor and Szucs Antal Gabor, and you probably haven’t either, but they are Hungarian musicians who play Latin music. Why do they play Latin music? Who knows? At the time this...
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My Preference for Business News
Everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line where I am either conservative of liberal. According to this model, everyone initially agrees that I...
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The Be Good Tanyas
I have to say that one of the reasons I like my friend Ruth, with whom I disagree on politics (let’s face it; I disagree with almost everyone on politics), she has excellent taste in music. A month...
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Steve Jobs’ Culture
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer...
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