Everyone reaches their own version of a breaking point. It’s the moment when the incalculable doom of your current situation demands you to do something. Divorce attorneys are experts at exploiting that point in marriages, and music bloggers (you know who you are!) are very quick to point this phenomenon out as the music industry lurches toward its seemingly self-inflicted, horrible demise...
Bye bye Karl: A small diversion…
Karl Malden died. He was 97. Capping a string of celebrity and “celebrity” deaths, his probably won’t go as noticed as others. But he reminded me, in an instant, of a catchphrase which has become totally ubiquitous in American culture: Karl Malden was an extremely talented actor. He won an Academy Award, starred in movies like “On the Waterfront” and ”...