Okay, I’ve largely sworn off politics for the blog and will see if I can keep that up through the mid term elections. But I thought the George Allen thing was so funny and revealing that I had to put it up. Maybe my perspective is warped because I am reading Philip Roth’s The Plot […]

Well, we’ve been keeping to our pledge to get out and about more this year. We went away the least two weekends, for at least a day. Last weekend, we went out to the country home in a small village of our friends Eric and Titi. We had a great day and ended up taking […]

I’m still working my through the hundreds of photos we took this summer. The process has been greatly slowed by my continuing lack of high-speed connections at home. I am now sitting in a subway, of all places. They have a great connection. Beach Haven feels like home almost as much as anywhere does these […]

We went out to an interesting and fun dinner last night. A surprise 40th birthday party for a new friend who works at the Embassy in a pretty big job, and we met a lot of new people, interesting folks. There were two guests there who read my column regularly and I had interesting conversations […]

There is a site called Rock’s Back Pages — www.rocksbackpages.comwhich includes about 5,000 articles by a host of rothe mbest music writers of the last 30-40 years, including, ahem, me. I’ve only given them a few things actually but the real music freaks out there will be fascinated by this place. As a fifth anniversary […]