The goal of life is life. Every impulse and thought is a device developed toward that end. Even poetry and art reflect our humanity and are impelled by instincts -- fear and powerlessness, association and love.
In a list of "famous people" who had a very bad year in 2009, I came in at #18, behind Tiger, Madoff and Carrie Prejean. I guess that puts the likely folding of my magazine, Editor & Publisher, in some perspective.
For anyone who wants to buy one of this year's new-fangled Christmas recordings, here's a checklist of musical stocking stuffers ranging from traditional to subversive.
Most of the "new" music I've gotten into this year is actually old music that's never been heard before, dredged up from the vaults just in time to make a buck before recorded music ceases to have any monetary value whatsoever.
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
We're at album number four and Alicia Keys still mesmerizes. This project clicks better as a body of work than two of her three previous albums, and it avoids sounding like a smattering of singles across a CD.
As 2009 draws to a close, I compiled a selection of quotes from leading newsmakers as a way of highlighting some of the biggest news stories of the year.
Michael Jackson's brothers will move into minute 12 of their 15 minutes of re-found fame when The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty premieres. But If they want to claim the Musical Family Dynasty title, they'll have to fight off these groups.
Janis' music has been widely reported by many throughout the world to have healing qualities. Played in dozens of hospitals with the children and adults in cancer wards, patients and families swear to witnessing various miracles.
If you watched the opening of Good Morning, America Thursday you found stories covering President Obama's Afghanistan speech, unemployment, health car...
What if Albert Einstein had a computer in elementary school? What if Ghandi had followers on Twitter throughout the world? What if Mozart had Garage Band on his Mac? What if Confucius had a blog? These brilliantly influential people had amazing gifts and presence that permanently marked our Collective Consciousness without the use of today's technology.
As the airwaves knock to his lead single, I Get It In, superstar Omarion is looking to establish himself as a major force in the industry.
Millions of people are sharing their emotions with their computers on a daily basis, and slowly, we are teaching computers what it's like to be human.
Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?
There's a strange phenomenon among Iraqi refugees in Damascus -- most are nocturnal. Virtually everyone sleeps all day, wakes up late in the afternoon, and stays awake until the small hours of the night.
Today is Susan Boyle's coming out party. Her debut album, "I Dreamed a Dream," is in stores, she's going to meet America on Monday's "Today Show," a...
I know I'm not alone when I say Michael Jackson had been absent from my life... But in the documentary This Is It, he is back!
I went to see This Is It the way one might go see a horror picture. What I encountered instead was an artist at the absolute top of his game.
Because we share so much history together, I am hereby announcing that I have decided not to protest Johnny's outrageous victory over me in this year's list of the Sexiest Men Alive.
For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.
The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.
