This past Thursday, the 23rd of January 2025, was an end of an era as they say for the Guitar Center in West Los Angeles at the corner of Pico and Westwood Boulevard. I managed and did corporate sales at a Borders Bookstore years ago Read More …
Category: Book Reivews
What Louis L’Amour Taught Me About Writing and Wandering
The first book I ever read by Louis L’Amour was “Hondo.” I subsequently read “Mustang Man” and then “The Quick and the Dead,” and then I had to collect, invest in and read them. I purchased them all online with the original covers and western Read More …
My Own Marilyn Monroe (A Poem by Michael P. Naughton)
She requested a poem of her own My own Marilyn Monroe on this special day of love and devotion. She’s a “Misfit” and a card like Sugar Kowalczyk A blonde bombshell, a sexpot, voluptuous and hot that can turn a head or cause a wreck, Read More …
The Day Brando Died (Ode to the Apocalyptic Godfather) A Poem by Michael P. Naughton
The Day Brando Died (Ode to the Apocalyptic Godfather) I was with my then friend Michael Madsen the day Marlon Brando died. I wanted to help him out as a poet when I once worked for a place called Borders — Will anyone remember Read More …
How “They Only Kill Their Masters” Inspired “Pit”
The ‘70s were all about dangerous Dobermans. “The Amazing Dobermans,” “The Doberman Gang” “Daring Dobermans,” “Trapped,” even one of my favorite Columbo episodes, “How to Dial a Murder” featured a pair of trained, or reconditioned, Doberman killers. They Only Kill Their Masters, released in Read More …
Fair Warning Wins a Perfect Crime Trifecta, Connelly Never Disappoints
I have been reading Harry Bosch novels for years. “Trunk Music” was the first Connelly book I ever read. “The Poet” was my second… and I have not stopped reading him since. His attention to detail in investigations is authentic, superb, and on the level Read More …
WHY ‘THE GUITAR AMP HANDBOOK’ by Dave Hunter” GOES TO ELEVEN”
He also goes on to point out the idiosyncratic nature of the amp/guitar combo and the effect each will have on altering your playing and performance. The sonic epiphanies will astound you. Read More …
“See what your greed for money has done…” Grown-Up Anger Book Review
They say: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Meaning there is a good foundation to the suspicion of a situation. Woody Guthrie sang about the atrocity of the 1913 Massacre, also known the Italian Hall Disaster, a festive occasion with town miners of Calumet Michigan and Read More …
5.0 out of 5 stars U.S. HISTORY TOLD THE RIGHT WAY… FOR ONCE
This book reads like a modern-day version of Thucydides, the Greek historian, The History of the Peloponnesian War and the corruption of language. Read More …
Why “Not Dead and Not for Sale” is this Generation’s “No One Here Gets Out Alive”
No lack of substance here (literally). True, some readers, reviewers and fans might be disappointed by the terse, tenuous and to-the-point chapters of Scott Weiland’s autobiography. However, I found his memoir insightful and edifying. I think he was wise to say just enough and the Read More …
