Re-introducing Steve Bergstein... MY OLD FRIEND Steve Bergstein wrote to me the other day and asked about how he could set up a blog. Blogspot? Something else? I seized on the opportunity. Um, how about for Planet Waves? We come with actual readers, and we're starting to get our act together. Steve has written for Planet Waves on a few occasions and has been involved with my projects going back to Student Leader News Service in 1989, where he was legal affairs editor. He then went onto CUNY Law School (where students hung the American flag upside down during the Persian Gulf War). He's now a partner in the law firm Thornton, Bergstein & Ullrich in New York, which specializes in civil rights law. I love and trust his writing and I'm happy to welcome him as a Planet Waves blogger. We've got the technical side of his column working great, thanks to Tracy's one-of-a-kind blogging software; we do need to decorate his apartment a bit, but it works nice. The title of the column is Psychedelic Sounds and Other Crimes, or Psychsound by Steve Bergstein for short. Steve likes to write about law (I refer to him among my friends as the child prodigy civil rights lawyer, as he was arguing cases before the federal Appellate Division before his Saturn Return, for law nerds, the 2nd Circuit) but he's also pretty knowledgeable when it comes to music. So I'm going to take a wild guess figure you'll be hearing about both. You can read his current stuff here: http://planetwaves.info/blog2.html You can reach him at psychsound@gmail.com. Are the Obscenity Laws Obsolete? http://planetwaves.net/contents/obscenitylaws.html Tribute to George Harrison http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/bergstein/george.html Others will come up in Google and Findlaw. He'll have a home on our homepage soon. Enjoy -- and welcome, Steve. I know you're someplace you'll be appreciated, and it's always good to have you around.     e PS, he's a Capricorn.