Bring It On Home To Me

This is my favorite live song recording of all time. It’s Sam Cooke live At The Harlem Square Club in 1963 doing a medley of “You Send Me” into “Bring It On Home To Me.”

The Heat

My first memory of The Heat was when I was a little boy. I could not have been more than five or six. It was January, as I recall. One of those ‘hundred plus’ days.

My parents had these friends living in the small country town of Boort, in Central Victoria. The father was the manager…

The Glass Ceiling

It is funny how memory works. I was listening to the radio this morning. Talk back, on the ABC. This caller rang in to complain about the ‘glass ceiling’ and how unfair it was. It made me think of my son. He’d be what? Twenty five now. He was not always twenty five. He was three and a half once.

Tech Culture as an Offshoot of Hippie Counterculture

I had not been aware of the coincidence of these two events — Jerry Garcia’s death and the Netscape IPO. The author rightly points out that both were important in the history of the two cultural phenomena for which the Bay Area is perhaps…

Malcolm X died for our sins (and his)

Fifty years ago, a 39-year-old man named Malcolm Little was murdered by a team of five assassins in a ballroom in New York City. The shocking event took place in front of a crowd of four hundred people. As news of his murder spread around the world, millions…