Let’s Do This!
Dodgers end the season with 100 Wins Anaheim 100 Loses! We are off to the playoffs. Am I ever confident that we will make it to the world series? Not really... but I never am. Yeah, the team is older…
Departures
Sad month as loss of well knowns, is becoming more common. We can say thank you. Dolly Parton was bigger than her music, humanitarian, super star. Same time seemed very approachable. Shelley Fabares Long career Johnny Angels is a fabulous…
Summer TV
Summer TV tends to be a bit of drag. I have my baseball, but lack better entertainment when I am at home. I am really enjoying the new Emmy Rossum series Furious (only seen 3 episodes, so far). She plays…
The Kids Are Better Than Alright!
Wonderful double bill, had me drive to Garden Grove, to an odd venue Garden Amp. Never been before. Small theatre holds around 500 people attached to a park, in a residential are with a 10:00 PM curfew. Lemon Twigs and…
The Teenage Tapes Of Billy Bizeau
Billy was in my first band The Quick. But in his High School years he was making amazing Teac 4 track songs, and moved on to a 12 track studio ( YES, 12 track) songs. After at least a decade…
The World Of Kai Slater
Kai Slater is 21. He is in two bands - Lifeguard, and his own project Sharp Pins, or live Thee Sharp Pins. Also has a fanzine. Thee Sharp Pins finally returned to Los Angeles, first time since January 2025. Part…
Major League Baseball At Dodger Stadium
I went to opening day, which has been a ritual for decades. What is great about baseball is everything when you get in your seat, it is about the game. Over the years the ordeal of parking (expensive, and run…
Farewell Pete Dello
Summer of 1968 I spent a huge portion in Israel. The radio was heavily influenced by the UK. Out of nowhere I heard I Can't Let Maggie Go. When I landed in the UK, it was one of the first…
Poppy Lake Benair / My Little Folly
12 years ago we drove to Sacramento and adopted Poppy Lake Benair today we said goodbye. We are crushed. We will always have her in our hearts. My Little Folly I knew somewhere, I had my box of Polygram tapes…
The Publishing Years
The 90s might have been my funnest and most rewarding outside of being in a band. It was sort of like Mad Men (no booze, girls or cigarettes). But expense account, travel, meals, concert, etc.. Pitching music and signing bands!…