HOW TO BE: John Waters’ RISD Commencement Speech
I hope no one notices that I’ve re-posted-as-blog-post two weeks in a row. But seriously, John Waters’ RISD Commencement Address is a Must Read, Must Flag, Must Share. He reminds us How To Be. I had the pleasure of meeting John Waters when he was a guest on the original VH1 RuPaul Show in, gasp!, […]
Pay Your Dues
I don’t always have time to write but I always make time to read and I am a subscriber/regular reader of The Lefsetz Letter, a music-industry centric daily blast, er, rant, from critic and analyst, Bob Lefsetz. (Here’s an amusing “Who The Hell is Bob Lefsetz?” article from Wired.) I often disagree with Mr. Lefsetz […]
How To Bee
In case you missed it, the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee finals were last Thursday, May 28th. Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam were this year’s co-champs – the Bee ran out of words after Gokul nailed “nunatak.” (A nunatak is an isolated mountain peak projecting through the surface of surrounding glacial ice and supporting a […]