I’ve written quite a bit about what has been going wrong in my world and the world at large IMHO of late, frequently looking back at happier and more influential times for context and support. Today I’m going to try and look at the present and future for positivity with examples of how dreams can … Read more
A&E premiered the new documentary series SECRETS OF PLAYBOY earlier this week. It had been promoted for weeks and given some of the people I’ve been blessed with knowing of late I had more than a passing interest in seeing it. Apparently, I wasn’t alone; the first two episodes reached over 1.4 million viewers in … Read more
THE number was released to the media recently for the tenth consecutive year. Yes, the eagerly awaited “official” annual tally for Peak TV, the barometer of the number of adult-oritented scripted TV series estimated to have aired on broadcast TV, cable TV and streaming services in a calendar year. For the record, 2021’s NUMBER was … Read more
By some chance, are you or do you happen to know someone who is celebrating a birthday today? Better yet, might it happen to be a milestone birthday? If so, I wish you or that person a very happy birthday. I’d love more than anything to wish one particular celebrant just that. But we’re currently … Read more
One of the few bright spots of this horrific new year has been the meteoric rise in the popularity of WORDLE, an online word guessing game which has exploded in a manner of months to more than 300,000 daily players, per the New York Times, myself included. The object of WORDLE is to guess a … Read more
Last night I was supposed to be in a hockey arena in a town that was more than 60 degrees colder in temperature than where I was, but to me has always been eminently warmer. Never has that disparity been more evident than last night. Oswego, New York is hardly a tourist mecca, particularly in … Read more
Good Lord, 2022. Does every weekend of yours HAVE to start out with multiple deaths that dominate my social media timelines???! Yesterday I woke up to the news that both Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson had both left this world, both sizable talents who didn’t quite make three-quarters of a century. Like so many of my … Read more
I’ve previously written about what it was like to spend Christmas 2019 recovering from a cholecystectomy (gall bladder surgery, to those who may be polysyllyabically challenged), My liver had been damaged by the sepsis attack that I had, and post surgery, I had to have a drainage bag attached to my right side in order … Read more
Yesterday I very briefly caught a display ad on a trade site that signaled that my former colleagues at Sony were very quietly making available weekly episodes of THE GOOD DOCTOR and S.W.A.T. to local television stations in the fall of 2022. These days, the repeats of any television program being made available to over-the-air … Read more
Life has gotten so disparate and desperate that the mere idea of having lunch with friends has become worrisome and complicated. With the recent onslaught of longtime friends departing this world before I got the chance to see them in person again, I felt particularly eager to keep a standing date my BFF and I … Read more