Forty years ago today was one of those days that I remember all too well. In the early morning of Wednesday, 5 June 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ...

Last time I wrote about the significance of the album cover to Bo Diddley's Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger (Checker, 1960; pictured in the ...

And so Bo Diddley, author of the so-called “Bo Diddley Beat,” one of the foundational figures in rock ‘n’ roll, is dead at age 79. There is ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my weekly (more or less) visit to the local Goodwill Store, where one can, occasionally, find something inte...

In my blog entry of May 16 I discussed my experiment of trying to listen to all the rock and R&B albums released in the year of 1968 in...

Perhaps the most talented voice actor of the twentieth century, Mel Blanc, nicknamed "Man of 1000 Voices," was born 100 years ago ...

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Joseph Pevney, the film and television director who directed some of the most memorable episodes of...

Part 3 of The Squonk At the conclusion of my discussion of the Buoys’ “Timothy” the day before yesterday, I observed that some readers might...

Although highly feted during his lifetime, Sydney Pollack (pictured, with award), who died yesterday, May 26, at age 73, was never a directo...

Part 2 of The Squonk The linking of homosexuality and cannibalism in literature and art has been noted by both gay and straight critics. Cri...

Please forgive the splitting of my recent blog entries into parts, but I have a number of writing projects going on at the moment and as you...

In yesterday's mail I received the copy of Ed Sanders' 2002 update of The Family (Thunder's Mouth Press) I'd ordered, and l...