Shortly after midnight on Saturday, February 3, 1973, a fire broke out in the kitchen of a modest rental home at 202 Park Avenue in Williston Park, a small incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island. It spread throughout the ground floor in short order, and despite heroic efforts of…

I have always enjoyed doing interviews, and maintain a Wordpress blog dedicated to several I’ve done over the years, The Odd Interview. For the latest installment, I decided to interview my rabbi. I’ve known Rabbi Reice for several years and have always known her to have interesting, thought-provoking things to…

In the annals of rock ’n’ roll, the Benjamin Button Beatles occupy a unique niche. Over their 12-year career, not only did they record some of the most popular, original and memorable rock songs of all time, their impact on the culture of their time was profound. John Lennon, Paul…

So as you may know, there was a somewhat notorious “humor” column published last Christmas Eve in The New York Times by a writer I’ve occasionally admired in the past, Heather something, titled ‘Why Marriage Requires Amnesia.’ …

I sent this missive recently via Facebook Messenger to a musician I knew and whose band I admired in the last century. Identifying details have been removed. Hi ______________, Well, I don’t know whether or not you will find this weird, and this is about only the second note of…

I’m not usually one to note the birthdays of celebrities (even live ones) on social media, but Jonathan Richman’s 70th birthday today seems like a reasonable exception to the rule, especially since I have a sort-of-personal connection to the reclusive Mr. R, who commendably doesn’t do social media. The story…

Some Thoughts on the Massive Texas Energy Fiasco/Freezeout/Blackout/Lenten Season/Days of Atonement of Cold February 2021 As you may have heard, because apparently the stupidity, ignorance, greed and evil ways of the people in charge of the state of Texas has (not for the first time) become international news, in mid-February…

Here are some odd blocks of text that don’t seem to fit anywhere else and I’m tired of dumping everything I think of on Twitter, so I thought, why not waste other people’s time reading it? Seriously, I hope it’s not a total waste of time, or at least your…

This blog entry started off as a humble Twitter post linking to the video in question, but I decided it deserved a bit more bandwidth. …