Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin is gone, by now just one more we've seen succumb in the public arena of the
pop marketplace. It's not just that this kind of early death has become a fact of life that is
disturbing, but that it's been accepted as a given so quickly. We're getting to the point
where we merely anticipate between exits, idly wondering which will be the next among
our "heroes" to go. And caring less all the time. I don't know which is worse, the... More >