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The Talmud teaches that the sanctity of the post-worship meal merits promising judgment in the next world.  I was sitting at a 6-foot round with some of the older synagogue members. Comfortably conversing with my…

. . . Edgar* took a dramatic drag and exhale. Pulling at his 14-carat gold cuff-linked sleeves, The Palomino Club’s$ head bartender waited for me to slink away, shamed. We ended…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE He just seemed sad to me. A few times we dined with Randy and his first wife (and manager), Lib Hatcher. I don't have any memory of where. Usually…

Driving home from grocery shopping, this weekend, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (1993) came on my Sirius station. I'm a thousand miles from nowhereI've got bruises on my memoryI've got…

Candye Kane, an ex-stripper/part-time phone-sex operator turned country music and blues queen, had a fifty-four-inch bustline, a heart as big and warm as the San Fernando Valley, and a smile…

Dan Heching, CNN As the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" suggests, actor Kevin bacon is pretty famous, and has been for a long time. He discussed his longtime status as a highly…

I have satellite in my car.  Sometimes I hear harmonies that make me want to cry.  Crosby, Stills, & Nash Simon & Garfunkel  Toto Pure Prairie League The Eagles I'm afraid…

After the 2020 election, there were about 18 months where there was no news about Trump. We could exhale again., It was lovely. Then . . . boom. The motherfu^%$#cer…

In the 8 years that I lived in L.A, I fell in love with one house. On a cul-de-sac, it was Hacienda-style, white stucco, ubiquitous red-tiled roof. Besieged by wild…

I describe the legendary Palomino in Rain Dodging:  Entering the legendary Palomino Club on the fringe of North Hollywood was like stumbling onto a B-grade spaghetti western set. Walking past the…