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The Old/New Weird America
Penny Lane’s mind-rearranging documentary NUTS! — about goat-testicles titan Dr. John Brinkley, the ur-Trump of 1930 — started...
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Too Hip for the Room
At the end of the last post I referred to Harry “the Hipster” Gibson, and once he’s onstage...
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Smokin’ Peggy Lee
Late in her life I saw Peggy Lee perform at a club in New York. She was chair-bound,...
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Try a Little Tenderness or I’ll Kill You
Toward the end of my radio show last night I went into a death spiral with Spotify and...