(In my recent quest to find a decent or even a complete biography of Poe, I was disappointed - twice. I was upset enough to do something I w...

  Oscar Levant, Oscar Levant! I am too exhausted now from a truly gruesome sick-week  to go into a long prologue about who he was, and...

I keep coming back to Tony Perkins, and have never been sure why. The reasons are complicated: he was mysterious, misunderstood,...

There once was a man Who was almost white, But he'd only come out at night. It made him glow, But great was ...

(So howcum I'm posting this-all? I got reading Positively 4th Street again, maybe due to taking the guitar out of its dusty case for th...