A know a musician who sees the world very differently than I. We are on different sides of political issues. He is offended by my views as I am by […]

Reading Julie Bindel’s latest dispatch about reconciling her feminist views and loving Snoop Dog’s music, was exactly the type of assignment I was looking for. Planning now to have students […]

X. What do you like to write about in your songs?Y. I sing about politics, injustice, the looming industrial environmental apocalypse.X. Some baby I love you, as well?Y. I got […]

I was relistening to First We Take Manhattan, enjoying the way Leonard Cohen lays bare the mind that believes to terrorize is a solving problem method, “thank you for those […]

While reading the biography of Thomas Sowell I noted he and other economists are critical of minimum wage laws. I have heard this before and do not understand it. It […]

I was listening to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters and marveling at the brilliant lyric explaining how smoke gets in your eyes because your heart is on […]

I am working on a comedy with Rob Stefaniuk. We have shot two times and will once more this weekend. It is about an older musician who eaks out a […]

In the Thomas Sowell biography I’m currently reading it is a bit amazing when in the 1960s he realizes it is pointless to try and fight with faculties or Universities. […]

I listened to a young woman sing Wichita Lineman and couldn’t get it out of my head for hours. Jimmy Webb came to Hugh’s Room many times during these last […]

There was a presentation in the course on Berry Gordy. They mostly talked about the acts on Motown which was understandable but I wanted to steer the research towards exploring […]