Welcome to the Next Period

Welcome to the Next Period

Welcome to the next period of my life and my passion.  No, my passion may not be the one you were thinking I’d say. For as much as love, health, entertainment, politics and desire for relevance and human interaction fuel my livelihood and essence my passion is, unabashedly, sports.  I don’t play many, and I’m … Read more

S’Marvelous.  Even in Smaller Portions.

S’Marvelous. Even in Smaller Portions.

A new season of THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL dropped this weekend on Prime Video.  For me and millions of other devotees that was big news, and you better believe I found time to watch it.  For each of the show’s first three seasons, that devotion produced a dilemma of the proportion of the angst that … Read more

Happy 102nd Birthday?

Happy 102nd Birthday?

Recently I engaged in an online debate with a fellow game show geek who insisted on referencing the anniversary of the birth of a now deceased celebrity as a birthday.  My argument, admittedly snarky, referenced the fact that the person whose date of birth was being honored was no longer able to have a presence … Read more

Hot Cheetos and Takis and Reach

Hot Cheetos and Takis and Reach

My poor little surgically altered stomach can’t quite handle spicy foods, so I’m typically frustrated when I get a craving for a snack and see more different variations of flamin’ hot chips, popcorn, burgers and pizza at my local strip mall.   I’m well aware that the likely reason these flavors dominate the shelves is because … Read more

Lag Time?

Lag Time?

The Super Bowl viewership figures came out yesterday, one of the few situations these days where research (excuse me: data science) executives crunching numbers are held in as high esteem as the executives and pundits who they typically slave away for anonymously.  Later yesterday, ViacomCBS held its investor day, which by its end saw its … Read more

The Year of No Cats

The Year of No Cats

If you were looking for the Kitten Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday as I was, you may have been as distressed as I was to learn that the Hallmark Channel had discontinued it, choosing human love for its Valentine’s Day movie marathon over pet love.  Yesterday’s news that its former CEO Bill Abbott, now heading … Read more

Be My Quaran-Tine?

Be My Quaran-Tine?

Dearest Barbara, A few weeks ago I wrote at length about how much your valued intelligence and leadership was so influential on my life and health.  Your institutional medical knowledge and unwavering dedication to “trusting your team of medical experts” is constantly cited every time your beautiful face pops up from some remote location in … Read more

Super Fan Sunday

Super Fan Sunday

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and here in balmy LA the sense of anticipation is none like I’ve ever witnessed before.  For only the second time in 56 years (but also the second time in two), a team that plays regular season games at the Super Bowl site will be contending for the ultimate sport’s ultimate … Read more

“You Hawf A Sistah”

“You Hawf A Sistah”

Way too many February 11ths ago I fell asleep watching THE NEWLYWED GAME while lying in a baby crib that was awaiting the impending birth of my mother’s second child.  As we often did in our cramped garden apartment, my parents would huddle by the working heater in their bedroom with them in their bed … Read more

Don’t Just Laugh At Byron Allen.  And Never Doubt Him.

Don’t Just Laugh At Byron Allen. And Never Doubt Him.

This week’s report that Byron Allen, one-time REAL PEOPLE co-star turned billionaire entertainment entrepreneur, was bidding to own the NFL’s Denver Broncos was seen in some circles as shocking.  How could Allen, whose reported net worth is a fraction of those of the likes of other current NFL owners, and with no experience in running … Read more