Nobody asked, but.....

Billy Joel is the most sing-a-long-able pop songwriter ever.

Yonah Schimmel's Knishes are worth braving wind and rain storms and the traffic on Houston Street. They satiate the stomach and soothe the soul.

In L.O.'s mind there is no greater Cathedral than the Cattedrale di San Lorenzo in Florence. It is a mix of the grand and the crass, the sublime and the debased, the pursuit of holy salvation and the pursuit of earthly power. Michelangelo both gave the Medicis their money's worth and surreptiously stuck out his tongue at them for all posterity to see.

Simple declarative sentences are fun to write.

The dusky light on a winter afternoon on a clear-skied day out in the fields and forests are worth the chapped lips.

Don Mattingly is a noble, tragic figure worthy of affection and respect.

The movie Avalon is sentimental bosh and L.O. loves it.

Read The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast consecutively and you'll understand all that there is to know about living and writing.

Kurt Weill's "My Ship" is a great song.

Television and Video Games have bred a generation of sociopaths incapable of empathy.

People who call Frank Sinatra a crooner deserve nothing but contempt.