All 4 of my grandparents came to America as penniless immigrants from Eastern Europe, making my parents first generation Americans....

As you probably know, I’m writing a memoir and occasionally post pages here. That's what this is, one of those pages. The other day an...

There were some wonderful perks to working at a record company— and particularly to being a top executive. Personally, I appreciated the...

When I was a kid, there was a widespread rumor that LSD caused genetic damage. Many of us believed it might be true— and we didn’t have...

Everyone should work in a restaurant at some time in their life. I had literally never cooked anything when I went to work at the...

A couple of days ago, I talked a little about my first experience with my new VW van in 1969 when Martha and I drove down to Morocco and...

In 1968, Volkswagen had an amazing deal. A fully equipped VW van, which normally sold for $3,500, was offered to American students for...

Maybe ChatGPT Has A Different Perspective? That's a very old picture. Yesterday, Pope Francis was interviewed by Nicole Winfield from the...

Not every member of Congress is as stupid as your average Republican— let alone Lauren Boebert. Ted Lieu, for example, simultaneously...

When I moved back to the U.S. from Amsterdam, I stopped for a few months in first New York and then Las Vegas before eventually washing...

This is a graphic—kind of pornographic— story for the memoir I'm writing. You'll see in a moment-- of you decide to keep reading-- why...

I’m still looking for that astrology workbook of mine. I ventured into a room I never go to and saw shelves and shelves of books, tapes,...

I got to Afghanistan for the first time in 1969 and I just fell in love with the country. Driving there was more like traveling back in...

I finished watching the Netflix series based on Warhol’s diaries. I liked it a lot, even the last episode, which was all about death and...

I was kind of melancholy last night, having watched the last episode in the Andy Warhol Diaries series on Netflix. It was about death--...

The first time I met Chaka Khan was just before Christmas, 1978. She was 25 and I was 5 years older. She was just starting a new solo...

I’m Waiting For The Man— No, I Mean I AM The Man… I Was 1969— sitting in my van on the Pakistan-India border in the sweltering heat,...

I hitchhiked to Miami— or tried to— when I was in high school, 14-15 years old. I was apprehended by the state highway police on the New...

The first half of this 1977 interview with former Clash bass player Paul Simonon— who will be 67 next month— ran Wednesday evening. At...

The Clash were never on any label I worked for. But they were my favorite band for a long time. I expect to write a lot about them in the...