Warner Bros has several private jets. When I ran Reprise Records, I could order one a day in advance and fly wherever I wanted go. I...

I love Morocco. I started going there in 1969 and I’ve been back more than a dozen times. The charms that made Essaouira my favorite...

I worked at a meditation center in Amsterdam for several years, the Kosmos. Mostly I worked in the restaurant but another one of the...

RFK, Jr Lost His Mind Long Ago At one point, it appeared that something like 5% of American voters were ready to cast their ballots for...

Sometimes I Wonder If Everyone Is As Transgressive As I Am I wasn’t really a Bob Dylan early adapter. I missed the 1962 eponymous debut...

If you follow me on Threads, you may have seen, a couple of hours before sunrise, that I had noted that I'm so old that I heard the...

Bob Dylan had already been putting records out for 3 years before I caught on. I missed his eponymous debut (early 1962) but years later...

About 80% of Americans who buy new cars buy them on credit. I never bought a car on credit. Starting as a teenager, I always bought...

Plus— DeSantis Overreach & High Insurance Rates Are Killing Support For The Anti-Woke Agenda When I was a teenager and in my twenties, I...

We Must Do What We Can To Make The Slaughter In Gaza End When I was a child, the source of the most unconditional love was my...

When I talk about my radio career, I usually mention that Chris Knab (Cosmo Topper) and I started the first punk rock radio show on a...

From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn Plays wasted words, proves to warn That he not busy being born is busy dying Two friends:...

I met Charlie on the steps of American Express in Delhi in 1969. We all used American Express to pick up our mail from back home in those...

An old friend from Stony Brook, Brian Baxter, is working on an art project and a couple of days ago he asked me if I could remember all...

I Never Had A Single Beer In My Life My old friend Dan Levitin is an author. He totally lucked out with his first book, This Is Your...

When I die, Roland’s going to inherit most of my estate. He’s not extravagant and I think I’ve been mostly successful in teaching him the...

Growing up, the person I loved most and who loved me most was my grandmother, Jean. And the person I respected most was my grandfather,...

So I Signed This Important Letter A Dangerous Conflation We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread...

I was in New York last week— 7 days in the city I hadn’t seen since a couple years before the pandemic. One thing I was especially...

Werner Herzog, 81, just released a new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, and was a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air...