NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology and business. In terms of breaking news items in media, the one that THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s veteran sports and media expert Joe Flint dropped late Wednesday diminished in … Read more
Yesterday was not a great day to be either a media consumer or an American no matter what side of the aisle your seat is as you’re riding this increasingly turbulent plane. In an almost dizzying array of breaking news, we saw the team leading our country to allegedly the greatest six months in our … Read more
I didn’t come to appreciate the brilliance of Ozzy Osbourne earlier in life as so many who are mourning the BLACK SABBATH fronter’s death yesterday at age 76 did. If you picked up anything from my musing about Billy Joel over the weekend, I wasn’t exactly the kind of music lover that would find … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology and business. One of the biggest downsides of my recent escalating issues with insomnia and stomach pain has been I’ve had to refamilairize myself with the DIRECTV package … Read more
I get both amazed and agitated when I notice what seems to stick beyond the usual lifecycle of a few hours in this world of instant gratification and entitled ADD sufferers who have made sober-curiosity and mushroom/cannabis elixirs at $10 a can ubiquitous enough for even someone as seasoned as moi to be aware that … Read more
For me, the summer of ’75 was my summer of ’42. No, I didn’t have a hot mom taking my technical virginity, but I did make some friends outside my usual circle of nerds for the first time when I earned the princely sum of $25 (plus tips) working as a counselor at the day … Read more
Look, I’m not a wholly unsympathetic person. I get this has been a rough week for Elmo, let alone some his friends in whatever alternative universe of the mind you choose to place him in. When the theme would ask “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?”, my kneejerk reaction was typically … Read more
I was all set to merely muse on the somewhat surprising news that came out of the FOX Sports camp early yesterday that confirmed, as oft seems to be the case, that I was only partially right–which given the choice they have landed upon also seems to be the direction they are pursuing. But thanks … Read more
I’m thankfully not as invested as it sure appears an awful lot of otherwise respectable people seem to be in the apparent deep, dark secrets surrounding the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein, and in particular what notable people may or may not have been his friends, even if that may have been in the … Read more
It’s both a blessing and a curse that I’ve been skilled and experienced in both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of research and data analysis over my years. And it’s days like yesterday where those worlds converge that I’m able to share–albeit vicariously–the joys of those who have something spinworthy to share as well as … Read more