(This post originally appeared on Huffington Post, on April 18, 2013) One of the best gifts I ever received as a child was a round Panasonic Panapet transistor radio, which came […]
(This post originally appeared on Huffington Post, on February 20, 2013) When Adam Smith wrote “the prosperity, …the splendour, and … the duration of the empire,” in 1754 (the source […]
(This post originally appeared on Huffington Post, on February 2, 2013) My father came to the midwestern United States in 1956 for an education. Born and raised in the environs […]
As the caption to the left informs us, it has been proven that virtue is correlative to wealth. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either deluded or a fool, or worse, […]
The last track to be both written and recorded for my new disc A Brief Respite From Shooting Fish In a Barrel was The Way Business Gets Done. This spring […]
To set my 50 layers of irony briefly aside, I have been putting some thought into how best to go about releasing my next disc. At the end of the […]
Wow, has it really almost been a year since my last entry? Time flies! I guess that’s what happens when one engages in the sort of deeply philanthropic activity that […]
Give them what they want? And let’s just get this out of the way first: to the extent that you, dear reader, are lumped in with ‘they’ in this song’s […]
There I sat, hot tears streaming down my weathered cheeks, when all of a sudden, I heard it… “how can you liiiiiiiiiiiiive without ME.” I felt that I had really […]
We were so ‘live’ when we performed this number, July, and Don’t Hurry Me, that everyone but me had to sit down. It was exhausting! If you want, feel free to download […]