I got married a little over a week ago. It wasn’t exactly a traditional ceremony, but it did feature a processional and a recessional….
Not all earworms are former Billboard Top Ten successes, well-known by everyone who hears even a few notes of their melody. Some earworms can…
These days, after writing this column for so long, the earworms practically generate themselves. As I wrote my previous column on the Ghostbusters theme,…
I'm out of town on vacation this week, and my “beach reading” is Mark Binelli's new novel Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All Time Greatest Hits,…
No matter what the calendar may say, summer has arrived, and here is how I can tell. I was standing in front of the…
I went out dancing on Friday night, at a small club in West Oakland. In fact, the club was so tiny, and I arrived…
I've mentioned before that I am of the nonstandard body type commonly known as “fat.” Not only that, but I've been a fat activist…
