If you are in the mood to listen to the poet of the haunted and broken ones, here is Tom Waits in 1977 singing a somewhat slowed down version of Tom Traubert's Blues, AKA Matilda from his album, "Small Change".
I want this site to become a process of thinking out loud about current affairs, photography, films and books and that, with your contributions, we can find greater clarity in a complex world.
Hogan's Alley incorporates my name with references to both Ben Hogan's mastery of the Riviera Country Club and to Fred Allen's "Allen's Alley". Golf is a passion with which I torture myself. Fred Allen each week presented American stereotypes with a humor and insight, which I hope to emulate.