I must have been in ninth grade. My mother was driving me to Rio Americano High School in this big-ass baby-shit-tan station wagon. The radio was tuned in to KZAP-FM (98.5) with morning deejay Kevin “Boom Boom” Anderson. Good ol’ “Boom Boom,” who would years later be fired for staging a “Jimi Hendrix choke-off contest” [...]

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
– Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot”
“I started a joke/which started the whole world crying …”
– The Bee Gees, “I Started a Joke”
 
The press room at the Los Angeles County [...]