Exposure

You can die from too much exposure or you can get arrested and get sent to prison for other types of exposure. As far as I can tell nothing good ever comes from it. Yet band buyers and bookers continue to offer exposure as currency or compensation. You’d think they...

Express for Less Dig It

“Aging is all a state of mind.If you don’t care, you don’t mind.” (S. Paige)Item 1: Good news to the CBA readers of today’s Friday Welcome Column. I had an email from Mr. Cornish informing me he has narrowed the field of prospective Welcome Column writers from 364 to...

Express Lane…Closing Soon

Express Lane… Closing SoonToday’s column from Brooks JuddFriday, October 2,2015Item 1: Sheila and I and some friends just got back from the Gallo Theater in Modesto watching the existential/absurdist comic Steven Wright perform. It was a wonderful 90...

Express Lane: 10 Items or Less–My Auntie Frances

I jokingly and adoringly refer to her as my crazy Sicilian Auntie Frances who I love and cherish. She was neither crazy (on the contrary, crazy like a fox) nor my aunt. She is full blooded Sicilian, staunch Catholic, has a mind like a steel trap ,was one of the first...

Express Lane: Ten Items or Less

Item 1: Exit polls were confirmed and the results verified what CNN and MSNBC had predicted; there were no surprises in this year’s CBA election. You cannot find a more dedicated group of people than our CBA elected board members and it is because of them we have an...