NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional articles on technology. Last night, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres closed out a crucial four-game series with a tense, emotion-filled game that got emotional early and escalated … Read more
Tonight in the legacy basketball capital of America (what, you never saw HOOSIERS?), Indianapolis, Indiana, NBA history could be made. The Oklahoma City Thunder are one win away from winning their first-ever title at the expense of the Pacers, who themselves have already doubled the number of Finals wins the franchise had prior to this … Read more
No matter how much of a lull the media world may be in, leave it to the good folks at Nielsen to throw chum into the waters around this time every month when they release the first iteration of The Gauge, their “analysis” of media consumption that those that are still covering this beat immediately … Read more
It’s been pretty difficult in recent days for me to find something worth smiling about. I’m sorry, but I simply cannot take anything resembling a victory lap about how things went this past weekend. A few thousand neighborhood pep rallies with absolutely no impact on policy or the targets they creatively derided, or the fact … Read more
Yep, it’s definitely not the busiest time of year in the media world. Awards season deadlines have come and gone, upfronts and screenings have been held and the ensuing negotiations that come from them are still nascent. We’re only just now starting to see even summer schedules released, and the bigger theatrical gambits might be … Read more
Another Father’s Day, which for me is now the tenth that is being observed without my participation. And it’s doubly depressing for me since my father’s last cognizant breaths were taken on the last Father’s Day he was technically alive in 2014. While in a rehab center recovering from a second surgery in two months, … Read more
I’ve been accused, especially lately, of often being too focused on politics. Such critique is fair. When we first began musing just about four years ago, it was always my intention to merely incorporate such thoughts into their relevance to media and my life. But as any cursory search of any entertainment news aggregator this … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sports plus occasional essays on technology. At least on paper, I self-identify as a research consultant, and I’d contend in certain areas my level of expertise and experience would rival anyone, anywhere. … Read more
If you’re a regular reader you may have noticed that I tend to get melancholy when people who once were a vital part of my professional life move on. This is most definitely one of those occasions. Thankfully, the news that among others VARIETY’s Michael Schneider reported yesterday was merely a professional coda. But it … Read more
I’m truly exhausted to the point where it is literally causing me physical pain, so try and cut me a little slack if my usual level of intolerance for poorly executed strategies is a bit enhanced. I’ll confess to being right up there with the level that a good friend’ surly, ego-maniacal and significantly unqualified … Read more