R.I.P. Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen has died, he was 81. In truth I had no idea whether he was still alive or not – I hadn’t (really) thought about him in a while, a product of his era, poet and songwriter, essayist, kisser and teller, he was – for the most part – some sub-Leonard Cohen poet-as-lothario/lothario-as-poet. Although, no, that isn’t quite it.

He was a big name guy –…