I was supposed to play golf today, but we abide by the 50 degree rule: if it’s not over 50 degrees, we don’t play. Golf is supposed to be ...

Books And roughly a thousand pages later, Bleak House goes back on the shelf.   I guess my main Dickens fondness is for David Copper...

Music In the news: Two recent obituaries in The NY Times are pretty telling for my generation: Augie Meyers and Chip Taylor. The former wa...

And the CFL Middle School tournament is in the books. Everything went quite well on the debate side (and, I gather, the speech side). I ha...

[I don't think this ever got published, so...] Art: The Met Gala will be on the first Friday of May. Our invitation (which, to be honest...

  Some updates on this and that while waiting to work the CFL MS tournament.   TV: Finished the Apple TV series “Down Cemetery Road.” It’...

Music: I was born into AM radio. The first time I heard Elvis sing “Hound Dog” was on the radio in 1956, driving in our new turquoise Chevy ...

Debate: Catholic Charlie threw at me yesterday that I am giving opening remarks to the judges this coming weekend. Oh joy. Oh rapture. Give...