The beauty of private enterprise!
Blue Origin Perfectly Lands New Shepherd Rocket
RIP Mr. and Mrs. Flutie
How sad and yet how perfect. “It is with a heavy heart that I am making this statement,” Flutie wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday. “This morning my family experienced the tragic loss of my father, Dick and mother, Joan. My Dad had been ill and died of a heart attack in the hospital and my Mom, less […]
Greetings from Race Week Key West
R.I.P. Allen Toussaint, My #1 All Time Rhythm & Blues Contributor
In 1960 Allen (allentoussaint.com) joined Minit records as a producer. His first release was Jessie Hill’s “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Today, 55 years later, this New Orleans R&B classic featuring Allen along with Jessie, Lee Allen, Earl Palmer, and Alvin “Red” Tyler resides at #1 on my all time Juke Box Top 100 list. Thanks […]
Keith Richards Interview
I like Keith Richards’ take on the looseness of the beat in this Rolling Stone magazine interview: You’ve always managed to kind of screw with sounds and come up with something new, like removing the E string for a five-string guitar and popularizing open-G tuning. I tried to learn “Before They Make Me Run” once with a band, and figuring out […]
SHOUT! Remembering the Isley Brothers
Marc Myers writes for the Wall Street Journal: The Isley Brothers’ “Shout” is one of the earliest and best-known party songs. Immortalized by the frat-house dance scene in the 1978 comedy film “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Shout” was originally conceived by Ronald Isley during a 1959 concert in Philadelphia as a way to extend the […]
Bill Gross of Idealab
Bill Gross is the founder of technology incubator Idealab and 100 companies in the last 30 years. This week he was Tweeting from the Wall Street Journal’s 2015 global technology conference held at the Montage, in Pasadena, CA. I believe there’ll be $1 trillion of value created every 5 years, 1/2 from existing companies, 1/2 […]
What’s on Your Bucket List?
“It’s not how fast you travel, it’s how far you go,” sings my friend Bob Morrison in his recently recorded song A Wheel Is A Wheel. If you live outside of Nashville, TN you may not know the name Bob Morrison, but you most certainly know his songs. He was the straw that stirred the […]
Tory Burch’s Commencement Speech at Babson College
I watched this inspirational video over the weekend:
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