RIP Kobe and Gianna

Conflicted -- an Ardmore hometown hero became an L.A. superstar, but with a huge honking #MeToo closet skeleton that's hard to ignore.

Cory Doctorow told me recently that trying to place complex humans in a single position on the good-bad continuum leaves you with an incomplete solution, much like trying to determine if light is a particle or a wave. Humans have quantum-like indeterminate personalities that are not reducible to a single metric.

RIP Kobe and Gianna.

RIP Rabbi Gene Wilder aka The Frisco Kid

RIP Gene Wilder.

I bumped into him years ago at the old bagel store (long gone) down the street in Bel Air. (His grandkids lived in the neighborhood.)

I'm glad I got to tell him I loved him as the rabbi in The Frisco Kid.