Yes, my birthday’s today and were I’m not so lazy and overworked that would mean it’s time for me to make one of my signat...
I’ve certainly piled a couch or two on the top of my van through the years after a successful flea market run but I’m in the pee...
Last weekend I drove to Riverside to see a performance of The Color Purple, the musical I co-wrote. I tend to pick and choose the performanc...
That’s my 1955 Studebaker Commander. There’s nothing crazy about it; it’s just beautiful and an expression of part of who ...
When it comes to an award for crowing the loudest, that should go to politicians. If I get enraged by the money that movie stars make imagin...
I’ve seen political enthusiasm expressed on cars before but it’s usually more in the way of stickers. This jewel encrusted licen...
The only thing green this vintage 1970’s terrarium has ever been home to is if some candy happens to come in a green wrapper. It’...
I love this 1950/60s clock radio so much because it looks exactly like can openers of that same vintage did. I kept it in my kitchen for yea...
I always love handmade crafts, especially these Knit-Wit kind of animals, usually poodles, that are more often than not made to fit over eit...
Here’s a video tour of my trip to visit Dona Miller, owner of Vogue International, a 22,000 square foot wonderland of mannequin bodies...
Revered as much for his marriage to cuchi-cuchi girl, Charo, as for his spreading the gospel of bouncy Latin music and rhythm, Xavier Cugat ...
I never learned how to play Chess. Checkers was way more my speed, especially as I loved the sound the vintage wood ones made as you plunked...
It’s been dripping for days in LA. I used to spend so much time looking for my umbrella, the rain would end before I even made it outs...
We’re still mopping up the mess of the stealth spam attack that hit The Kitchenette on Friday. We’re almost done but there are s...
I’ve always been intrigued with label design, especially when appearing on cans, as the designer has to take the roundness into consid...
. Other than I didn’t have a car so my world was very small when I went to college at the University of Wisconsin in the late 60’...
I LOVVVVED conducting! I hope that’s evident in this clip. I’m grateful I got the footage I did though I’d planned to have...
I just got back from spending three of the most fantastic days of my life. Seriously. As I’ve been blabbing about for weeks now, I had...
As opposed to being an actual marching band version of my song, “September”, this is a little film made for the high school band...
Without question, my most favorite thing about Southview’s version of my song, “September”, is the cha-cha bea they got go...
It took me a little while to realize this was my song, a good sign if you’re looking for kitsch though not necessarily so great for th...
As we speak, I’m most likely on a plane to my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, where I’ll be conducting the Marching Ban...
This is a “Panapet 70′ transistor ball radio. All of Allee’s radios are in fabulous working condition and I was so tempted...
By the time you read this I will probably be on the plane heading to Madison, Wisconsin where I’m about to conduct the University of W...
is As I’ve never learned how to read music, even that which I’ve written and somehow managed to plunk out on a keyboard note by ...
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