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“It was Steiglitz.” “It was Strand.” “Which one was banging O’Keefe?” “What?” “One of those guys was sleeping with [...]

…one day in December. I’d been there too long and too often and there were never enough chairs. So, I walked away from the hospital room and went next door to the zoo. Next door was [...]

  The plaster fell from the wall. The mic stand hadn’t seen a mic in a dozen months or more. The decorator had died before starting the job. The tape was giving up the ghost. The thumb [...]

From a few years back, but just as vivid today.   I can clearly see the kids from the front window. They’re playing some game, but something doesn’t seem right. White [...]

Anybody remember when Jimmy Buffett was a good songwriter? Anyone? It’s been a hell of a long time since he was. He’s a hell of a lot richer now that he has learned the fine art of [...]

This is another repost from the old days. I am going to make a concerted effort to post one musically related item each week. The 1970’s were wrong in so many ways and right in so many [...]

This is a repost of a story that I wrote years ago. The associated images were lost in a web migration and I have them again and thought, “Why not?” And now the story. Obviously, my [...]

Marlowe had just taken the guns off Joe Brody and Carmen Sternwood, admonishing Carmen the get up off the floor, “you look like a Pekinese.” Raymond Chandler’s private eye [...]