Sunday, October 26, 2025
Ron Rosenbaum's Playboy interview with Bob Dylan is an important touchstone for Dylan scholarship. We should never trust everything that ol' Bod says, but this has always impressed me as notably candid, and gave us, "thin, wild mercury sound"
Friday, October 17, 2025
I am having a DMV experience for the ages. For reasons nobody can explain to me New York will not accept my application to transfer title of my parents' car. There is a specific New York statute (EPTL § 5-3.1) that provides that a surviving spouse can transfer title without going through probate, but because title on this car was issued by South Carolina the DMV insists that I go through probate in the Palmetto State. This is not consistent with choice of law principles and is infuriating.
