The Flam­ing Lips were an acquired taste for me.

My first expo­sure to the Lips was watch­ing Beavis and Butthead in a dorm room, and see­ing “She Don‘t Use Jelly.” The video got a decent amount of air­play, not just a oneshot on that show. Most of my col­lege years, MTV was on in […]

Each month, I meet with some girl­friends for a dis­cus­sion on a book we’ve recently read.  This infor­mal book club has no pre­set read­ing list.  One mem­ber gets to pick the book and the venue for dis­cussing it.   So far, we’ve read Water for Ele­phants: A Novel by Sarah Gruen, Ain’t She […]