Today the latest example of putting lipstick on a pig was foisted upon the world, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gleefully announced the rebranding of Facebook as “Meta”. An homage to the “Metaverse” it will attempt to service, Meta will be an umbrella title that will emcompass the company’s numeropus existing businesses, including What’s App … Read more
Last night, while Los Angeles dried out from a daylong soaking rain, I plopped down in front of the big screen, a plate of mushroom fettucini in hand, and watched Monday Night Football in a new way with more than a million strangers, though in truth all by myself. I’m reminded that I’m the latest … Read more
I’m proud to say that I have been a fan of HBO content for a majority of the 50 years it has been in existence. And for as much as Netflix and Chill may define our current times, “it’s not TV, it’s HBO” established the gold standard that Netflix now lays claim to. HBO was … Read more
I’m old school enough to be a rabid baseball fan, so 2020 was a particularly unsettling year for me in that regard. For the first time since 1966, I failed to attend a live professional baseball game in person. For as much as last year was a challenge for the world and for me personally, … Read more
The 75th season of the National Basketball Association opens tonight, the first in three years that is scheduled to run a full 82 games and in a traditional eight-month scheduling cycle. From mid-October to mid-June, 1230 regular season games and as many as 420 post-season games will be contested, providing more than 3000 hours of … Read more
They’ve lost their national accredidation. They’ve been accused of voluntarily watering down the quality of their product. They currently measure only a fraction of screens with a sample size approximately one tenth of one percent that of their largest rival. They lost one of their top executives to a highly significant client now determined to … Read more
Yesterday I did a little food shopping. I bought a few staples at Pavilion’s, early in the morning to optimize time waiting in line but dodging delivery people, boxes of items being loaded onto the shelves and not having access to an available manager to ask questions about anything new that caught my eye that … Read more
Bela Bajaria is arguably the world’s most powerful creative executive. She’s so good she replaced a woman (Cindy Holland) who earned her company more than a trillion dollars over 16 years and in on a pace to eclipse that. How good is she? We simply don’t know. As Netflix’s head of global TV, Bajaria shepherds … Read more
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life. Tomorrow I have a post-operative checkup with the surgeon who repaired a ventral hernia at the end of last month, the third time in 21 months I was put under anethesia. The experience was a damn sight better than the first time, when I … Read more
A lot of file space was devoted here late in the summer to the saga of Mike Richards, my former Sony colleague whose rapid fall from newly anointed heir to Alex Trebek’s throne to the loss of an eight-figure salary and public shaming that had him reduced to a punch line by Labor Day. As … Read more