Fame
I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...
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...
Too Hip for the Room
At the end of the last post I referred to Harry “the Hipster” Gibson, and once he’s onstage...
Smokin’ Peggy Lee
Late in her life I saw Peggy Lee perform at a club in New York. She was chair-bound,...
