If you were hoping for something light and upbeat today from these musings, I’m sorry to inform you upfront today’s wont be one of those. Feel free to move on from this if you were hoping for something more educational and informative and slightly more optimistic. I try and maintain something resembling blue sky optimism … Read more
A couple of weeks back, on a similarly slow summer Saturday, I took a few moments to not lament about what it wrong or praise what little is right about my primary industry of choice and spent a few moments instead lamenting about the challenges of navigating the one that a sequence of unfortunate events … Read more
A couple of weeks back, on a similarly slow summer Saturday, I took a few moments to not lament about what it wrong or praise what little is right about my primary industry of choice and spent a few moments lamenting about the challenges of navigating the one that a sequence of unfortunate events have … Read more
My roommate does spend a fair amount of time with his TV, though his choices, especially in entertainment, are typically not those of the masses. He is at best a moderate sports fan, so, unlike me, he doesn’t contribute to the records that the NFL and even women’s soccer set on a regular basis. Often, … Read more
My absolute favorite podcast, THE REWATCHABLES, is doing a live staging tonight in Los Angeles. If you’re not familiar with it, it combines the two passions of its creator and founder Bill Simmons and his minions–sports and movies–and revisits classic movies through the lens of a fresh look and a series of category ratings much … Read more
Caught up with an old friend the other day at one of our longtime haunts, a TV studio. Back in the day when we both young, dumb and broke, we used to frequent studio audiences of almost every TV show that would allow us into their studios that taped in New York City. In that … Read more
Amidst all the bigger picture tumult of discord among rank and file and the alarmingly tone-deaf tech genuises who resort to distractions such as “coincidental” tree-trimmings and false flag press releases immediately refuted by both those that actually saw their offers, last week there was one small item in the more niggly world that I … Read more
On an otherwise quiet and balmy summer Sunday (side note: DO go see BARBIE, and tell Ted Cruz to reconsider any thoughts about being a movie critic after he gets voted out of office), my friends Yacco and Wacko took to their favorite social media site to announce to the world that change was about … Read more
I’m often accused of having sometimes too good a memory, especially for events that qualified as firsts in my life. I can recall in very vivid detail where and what I was doing when the Mets won their first National League pennant (in my mom’s clunky Oldsmobile Holiday sedan riding home from school, same as … Read more
Tony Bennett passed away yesterday, a true legend that is justifiably being mourned by countless millions worldwide, an iconic talent whose prowess spanned eight decades of productive and inspiring performing. Some of those people are more prominent than others, as the numerous obituaries that have popped uo since the news broke yesterday morning have attested, … Read more