As an international traveler, I have had to show proof of certain vaccinations like Yellow Fever and other requirement by certain countries. Out of necessity I have always just went along with the program. To this point, I have resisted taking the Covid vaccine, mostly out of the principle it restricts my privacy rights as… Read More…
Concerts on deck
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander around in times that do… Read More…
Skillet
John Cooper was a music junky. He blames his mother, who taught him to play piano at an early age, but raised in an ultra-conservative Christian home, there was no room for Metallica or even Michael Jackson. Until Cooper found what he thought was a heavy-metal loophole. “My friend said there’s this Christian band called Petra; your parents… Read More…
Passing of a true friend to all
I got a call from a close friend last night that Carman Died at a Las Vegas hospital of complications of surgery to repair a hiatal hernia. He had just conquered cancer and was in a state of total remission just a few months ago, he was 65. I was his tour manager from 1994… Read More…
Free speech still in
“Do you think we’re living in a fantasy world?” “No, I think I’m the only one who doesn’t live in a fantasy world,” Bill Maher quipped. “But Donald Trump is going to run again. He’s not going away. And he’s a brand now. I see these other politicians who talk like him now. … It’s… Read More…