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I usually don't try to puzzle out my dreams. They are usually so strange and surreal, no good through-line. Usually plot-less. They a...

Sometimes I see the world as it is, or at least as I perceive it... Sometimes I see the world as it is, or at least as I perceive it, and I ...

I suffer from the malady Piggy in the "Lord of the Flies" called "ass-mar." It's something I've carried with m...

Yes, well, most of the year I stuck to a vegetarian diet. Keeping fit. But yesterday, (who am I to buck tradition?), with sharpened knife,...

As they say, life is not a "zero sum game." But of course, we actually play many games in a life. There's the main game - Li...

The God-fearing Western Capitalists were so afraid of that turbaned, bearded dude lurking in a cave in the mountains of Pakistan, they didn...

Another looming problem: Healthcare in America. Seems the population is aging. More old-timers will need more and more operations, medicat...

So I'm reading Ian Frazier's masterful write up on Asian Carp this morning while drinking massive amounts of coffee. At the same t...

Epic fail. The Telepaths played a show for Zombies last night. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. I broke a string during the fir...

Back to the big-time recording studio yesterday. Pretty intense. We worked on vocals. Very intimate. The Lovely Carla did about 4 1/2 ho...

Growling. It comes in handy. Believe me.

And of course, once the knife is squarely embedded in the back, once the deed is done, "I'm sorry," just doesn't cut it.....

I have a soft spot in my heart for Larry McMurtry's " All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers." One of the all-time great li...

And then there are all those wonderful people who just want to run your life for you. It's not that they are doing such a good job of r...

As long as we are alive, self-invention and self-renewal are still possible. Possible every day, probably every moment of every day. This ...

And then you don your Artful Dodger persona, and skate!

The other thing I love about Keef's book is his discussion of his musical obsessions and influences. Keith studied the blues of Muddy W...

After reading Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, I jumped into an autobiography from our very own, real live Steppenwolf Keith Richards. I...

I have found that having a NEMESIS is a useful thing. You now have someone to define yourself against. As in, "I am this, not that....