"This was us all on the planet lamenting the loss of a man who was a master human being. And the density of that loss is of great weigh...

Honestly, it's a little weird. I've been in the same job for 29 years, and I'm leaving in two months. Thanks to a retirement...

In June 2010, I quit the standard-issue gym where I'd been keeping myself in okay shape, and I showed up at 7 a.m. at a one-car garage i...

"Oh, stop!" were the first words out of David Yow's mouth last night in Philadelphia as his band, the Jesus Lizard, took the s...

The Queen of Soul had been ill for quite a while, and I don't feel particularly well-qualified to wax poetic on her staggering value to ...

I'm not much on heroes. They invariably disappoint me. But, at least for the ten-ish years that I "knew" him from his boo...

Five years ago today, my dad passed away. I miss him sometimes, but, as I documented here , the last few years of his life were really rough...

I'm doing a little experiment, and it seems to be working. I'm in pretty good shape fitness-wise for a mid-fifties dude. Nothing ...

Last fall, the fine folks at Paleo Magazine had me write an article about alternatives to traditional meditation. I always viewed the en...

"Don't get me wrong. He's a nice guy. I like him just fine. But he's a mouth breather." --The Jesus Lizard (" Mo...