I ask for your indulgence. This one is going to take some explaining. Settle in. Names have been changed for the usual reasons. I live in Los Angeles, but I was raised in an outlying desert suburb that seemed like a totally different world from here. The town was no great shakes, but far from the worst place you could be. At the time, there was a lot of th
Since I wrote the piece in the daytime, it would be quite difficult to be affected by a full moon, which has also been proven to be a myth about affecting people's behavior. Conspiracy theorists are all out there. On TV, talk radio, the Internet, in case you haven't noticed. If you have a Pacifica radio station near you, or for that matter, just about any kind of public radio station, it's next to impossible to avoid them. Would
I've been hearing them since November of 1963, the year I turned 13: (fill in the blank) killed John F. Kennedy. Ditto Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King. The moon landings were all faked. Watergate was an attempt by Nixon to become permanent dictator. Elvis Presley is alive. The government had John Lennon murdered. The g
Post WWII: Radio flounders as television spawns. 1954: As radio struggles, and some stations shutter their doors, rock and roll comes along and saves radio. It's relevant again. 1959: Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) perish in a plane crash. Rock and roll's backbone is broken. 1960: Elvis Presley is drafted. He makes no recordings during his two years in the Army. In the interim, rock tries different
Reading different entries, it's obvious to me that there are haters out there. People have their targets and their own individual reasons for hating. Everyone has a right to their opinions. I also have a list of people I absolutely hate. People who absolutely are quite capable of making my life miserable. I'll bet I'm not the only one who hates these people. Here is a
Thank you all for your responses. Locomama and MasonM, you bring out my point that this is a hot button issue. It was not my intention to stir up a debate, but I'm glad to read both of your comments. No two people, even Among those who agree, see things the same way. Locomama, I'm not familiar with the song, but if it's a good song, then it can't be a bad thing. MasonM, it looks like we've both seen the ugly side of the il
I'm not going to try to stir up a hornet's nest with the subject of illegal immigration. There are good, well meaning people on both sides of this time bomb issue. The people who could be labeled "bleeding hearts" are trying to help poor, uneducated people reach the desirable dream of a better life in "el Norte." Groups like the Minutemen, as misguided as they
Initially, the M*A*S*H finale was shown as a 2-hour movie, and is available in both VHS & DVD as a telepic. According to Jumptheshark.com, M*A*S*H jumped the shark (gone downhill) after Radar (Gary Burghoff) left the series. At that point, the program started getting preachy as the emphasis went from humor to a weekly sermon on how bad war is. One LA Times writer wrote that M*A*S*H had "....deteriorated into the Alan Alda Show." Many posted comments co
By now, everyone knows about the series finale of The Sopranos , where the ending left viewers with far more questions than answers. HBO's website was inundated with so many angry emails immediately afterwards that the site crashed. Sopranos creator David Chase decided he was doing people a favor by leaving the question of what happens, especially to Ton
For my first post, I thought it would be more appropriate if these words from my sister Diana were shared. She was reluctant to post them anywhere, and I told her that if she didn't, I would. I'm keeping my word. My only regret is that I didn't post them earlier this month, for reasons that will soon be obvious. From this point on, the words are from my sister Diana: I'm
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