Licorice Alive!   Charlie Parker's "Dewey Square."  Dial Records and the birth of the modern... 

Sports heaven in the land of LA

"First Man" and "The Right Stuff" and this moment of no return

Inconvenient truths and "Body Parts Unknown"

Licorice Alive!  Benny Golson's "Park Avenue Petit"  Benny breaks it down Jazz-wise and Story-wise at the Bakery

A kiss is just a kiss, the fundamental things apply, and crime bosses need friends too!

Love letters to a Korean Klepto-Killer and Sword Dancing in the Desert!

Hints, Commands and "Enemies of the People"

Licorice Alive: "The Man That Got Away"  The greatest torch song of all time and Judy Garland sings it into eternity

Christopher Columbus and the biggest navigational screw up in human history... 

"A Star is (re)Born" or "A Star is Reincarnated"... or "A Star is Manufactured"

And A Star revisited.  A look back at the Judy Garland's '54 version   

Benny K and the Ukulele

Licorice Alive!.... Breakin' down the Bossa with Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave"

"To Boof or not to Boof, that is the question..."

The Billionaire Brat boy's evil spawn... "The Kav"... the frat boy gone wild, gone straight and now gone bankers....

Kristine Blasey Ford...from preppie coed to Surf Sister of the Soul

Licorice Alive:  Stella by Starlight

Rat Pack revisited, the Green Room at the Trop and livin' large in the "LV"

Cosby cuffed and Kavanaugh confirmed?  (I pray not)

Memories of Miltie

Licorice alive with "Cheesecake"... The King of Central Avenue, Dexter Gordon

Mafia memories and rat pack recollecitons from the "Trop"

Trauma on a teeter totter and channeling my inner Lenny Bruce

Brett K... a good boy gone wild

........and tales from fraternity row

Licorice alive w/ Dizzy's "Tin Tin Deo"

Florence is coming!  Ready to release it's watery wrath into the coastal flank of the old Confederacy.   But this time the PVP (Putin's Vice President) is ready!!

Brother O is back and ready to rock!  Selling that hope like it's Ivory Soap.

Channeling Ghandi, Tolstoy and Jesus.... A new coping strategy for the PVP...   Les Moonves and the "Bad Boy Spectrum"... Stormy's Scarlet Letter

Billy Wilder's "The Apartment' vs Peter Fonda's "Easy Rider"

Adios Burt....

Keepin' the licorice alive w/ "Easy Living"

A paddleboard named desire...around Pt Dume to the Malibu Pier

Fill out your brackets!!!  "Who wrote the OpEd?    The Final Meltdown... the PVP meets Richard II.

The U.S. Constitution and those diamond lanes.  Luis C.K. hits trail towards redemption.

X's and O's, ones and zeroes and my binary brain

Keepin" the licorice alive with Tadd Dameron's "Hot House"

Musings on the last of America's happiest of cold warriors, John McCain... and his parting shot against the PVP

The greatest day of my life... My journey form Hue to Khe Sanh

David Pecker and the morning after.   "Hillary Hitman Tells All!!!" 

Back to Shaft......  Spike Lee's Black KKKlansman

Doing my best to hold a mirror up to morons, to use irony to expose  idiocy and comedy to confront corruption... as the American Telenovela continues....

In a Universe of mostly anti-matter... all matter really matters. 

"The Empire of Cotton"... or how a few white guys invented the first world

Hugh Hefner and the American wet dream