The guy who walked into Muddy’s Used Records and Tapes store was Pete Townshend, Jake was sure of it. He looked just like Townshend; but why would Pete Townshend be in Las Cruces, New Mexico? Although stranger things had happened here, Jake had to admit. He was positive that he had seen Anna Nichole Smith at the McDonalds Drive-Thru once (before she died of…

Madonna is going long, talking with Dave like they’re best buds or something, so I’m sitting here waiting in the green room. I will probably be bumped entirely, as the show is into its final segment. Comedians are always bumped if things go longer than planned, so I’m used to it (hey, I get…

At some point, Robert became more plastic and wires than flesh. Oh, it had been fun at first, a real kick to have an arm that looked like a real one, but was a hundred times stronger and impervious to pain…

After the fact, it was called the Summer of Love, the high point of hippie love, freedom, groovin’ to music, dancing naked in parks, smoking dope and just ‘digging the scene’ as we said back then. I remember free Sunday concerts in the Panhandle, the Airplane, the Dead and Big Brother,…