Perspectives
A Fifty Year Odyssey
As we approach our Saratoga High School Class of ’72 Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion, it got me thinking about what fifty years’ worth of life and living has made us what we are today. Consider five […]
Articles Index
Those Were the Days
Gonzo But Not Forgotten
The Strange and Terrible Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson (Editorial from the American Association of Independent Voters Website, 2005) Long before the New Media emerged into prominence, there was the New Journalism, a modernistic […]
The Years in Your Ears
Top 40 Songs, Freshman Year
Editor’s Note on pop music from 1969 to 1972: In 1969, I was beginning to move further away from the Top 40 music format. FM rock stations were blossoming everywhere, with formats and playlists distinctly […]
They Came From Saratoga
Spielberg the Sportswriter
The (very) early career of our greatest popular filmmaker By Bryan Curtis (Reprinted from the archives of the online publication Grantland, ESPN’s discontinued blog site.) Go to a mysterious place called Saratoga High School, 50 […]
Memorable Moments
It isn’t Trick-or-Treat until
Alfred Hitchcock Answers the Door
(photo left: Hitchcock standing in front of his Bel Air home, where he lived from 1942 until his death in 1980.) Halloween was a passion from my youth. It was Christmas with cooler special […]