Category: Record reviews
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Girl billionaire gives $100M to mystery corgi
Is this the Lucky dog? No, but this is a photo of Lucky, our dog. The rest is fake news — and my latest attempt to go viral. Today, inserting the word “billionaire” in your headline guarantees the attention of hordes of people starved for billionairic news. This is what happened to…
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Can money buy happiness? Sure it can.
Every year on my birthday, my grandparents sent me cards with cash in them. My father’s parents, Rose and Sam, sent me $5. After Sam died, and as Rose came to depend more on her children, my Aunt Edith took over this birthday chore. She sent me the card, tucked…
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To the wind’s twelve quarters/I take my endless way
In the past few years, someone I loved, someone millions of people loved, died in January. Sadly, this January is no exception. Ursula K. Le Guin died on Sunday. Unlike the other gods who have left us to muddle through life as best we can here on Earth Prime, I…
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There will never be another Beatles, except for the one time there was
Everyone is always looking for the next Beatles. From The Monkees to The Arctic Monkees, we salivate over any upstart new band that threatens to upset the world as we know it. They never do. We ain’t gonna see anything like The Beatles and Beatlemania again. There will never be…