The 2024 Dodgers season rolled along and with the turning of the calendar to May, the Dodgers injuries really took a toll. They were playing solid baseball but not dominant as many predicted. Still, in the pupae stage of the season, optimism was high. The addition of Teoscar Hernandez provided a new charm and whimsy […]
Bobby Bognar’s Handsome Music, like memory, is a living archive- an art form that evolves within us and grows as we pass through time. Before I was a young music journalist, I learned the rock musical history from the British Invasion to New Wave, to Punk and Post Punk with hints of Heavy Metal, Country […]
Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a […]
Soooo, it’s not personal. Nothing personal at all. I just don’t like Phil Collins. I mean, not as a person, I’ve never met him. Perhaps he’s a terrific father, a fine husband and a gentle lover. I just don’t care. I do not like his music. Never have and never will. Do I hate him? […]
In the canon of my stories, tales of my romantic past are bound to come to light. I have been often referred as ‘charming’ by one person and an ‘idiot’ by another within the span of three minutes. I prefer the term, ‘Idiotically Charming,’ and depending on the situation, idiot more often than not takes […]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Dir: Robert Altman During my two years of schooling at Tufts University, I enjoyed the many Film classes taught at that institution. Tufts was known for their School of Nutrition and International Law but my heart was in film. Two classes, in particular, stood out. English 301 Alfred Hitchcock was […]
Often in life, things get away from us. We all have goals, dreams, plans and a certain focus. For me, to maintain focus I have to work at maintaining focus. I’m a List Guy. I have lists of everything from my 53 Favorite Movies to My-To-Do list. I have lists of my lists. I have […]
SHIPWRECK KELLY I’ve been blessed to travel, wander and live all over this great country of ours. Wearing a few different job hats, between the ages of eighteen and thirty, every two years, I lived in a different city. Along the way, I encountered thousands of people, many of whom I call friends. Some I […]
THE LA QUARTET By James Ellroy Sometimes we just like to engage in a medium that provides comfort. Not just the medium for the medium’s sake but a particular show or movie. That’s the reason why I’ve seen the same episode of Cheers where Sam Malone blows up his own bar to win a prank […]
In the Summer of 2002, Southern California was burning. It would be my first encounter with wildfires and how it affected California, the ecosystem, the economy but, more important, human lives; the death and devastation and how it affected all. It would be a sharp transition from the tornadoes I grew around in Ohio and […]
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