I Couldn't Throw It Out Blog

In 2020, during Covid quarantine, director Gregg Edelman (recently starring in Broadway's Water for Elephants) gathered terrific actors for a Zoom reading of my three-act play We'll Be Fine. The first act, which I'm sharing below, focuses on a fath…

Ice-T is up to so much -- if you did a Google search, it would be overwhelming.  To help you keep up, we've gathered some favorite recent links. (And if you want to know where he was at 33 years ago, check out my never-shared 1991 Ice-T interv…

Guests on the podcast Zestful Aging always sound interesting. Without fail.  No matter what the topic is. Which is one reason why I'm so happy to be interviewed on the new episode, talking about the things I couldn't throw out and the one thing…

My mom Doris Small thought the greatest honor on earth was getting published. For some reason -- a lack of time, a lack of confidence -- she never tried to write a book.  But when I was in college and getting published in a magazine, this inspi…

Behold the beauty of Life in a Blender, performing at Joe's Pub in NYC. I know what you're thinkin'.  You're thinkin' "I love the theme song to I Couldn't Throw It Out so much that I must hear more from these musicians." Well, it's your lucky …

For our podcast tribute to Melanie, I loved listening again to her music -- finding old favorites and ones I missed until now.  For those of you with Apple Music, here's a playlist of essentials.   For everyone else, I've added note…

In our podcast episode about singer/songwriter Melanie, photographer Maddy Miller describes some iconic photos that she took of Melanie and shares some of the gifts she received from Melanie during their lifelong friendship.  Here's where you c…

Sally and I are gazing with joy toward the Great White North because Amazon Music's podcast page in Canada has added I Couldn't Throw It Out as the first entry on their list of Hidden Gems.  How could South Park blame Canada for anything? …

When I heard that Mojo Nixon died today at 66 of a "cardiac event" after performing last night on the Outlaw Country Cruise, it took me a minute to believe it. This guy -- who invented a crazy style of wild, funny, out-of-control, totally disrespec…

When Sally and I launched I Couldn't Throw It Out, we thought every episode would be about tossing the treasures I've saved for decades. Well… that didn't happen.  A year and a half into our podcast, and I've thrown out -- what? -- a few…