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
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
“North, East, South or West?” That’s how I answered the gentleman who manages the local California Pizza Kitchen near my apartment who last week informed me, after a nearly four month process of applications, video uploads, reference checks and interviews they were “going in a different direction” to give someone else a steady, paying job … Read more
Ten years ago this month I was hired for what some accurately called an inevitability. I was given the chance to head programming and scheduling for GSN, otherwise known as Game Show Network. In the impeccable words of yet another prematurely departed colleague, the eloquent David Lyle, it was akin to putting Dracula in charge … Read more
I always thought Groundhog Day was a welcome winter event. not to mention a hilarious movie. When it normally arrives on February 2nd, it typically signals that winter has reached its apex, with Punxsatawney Phil, everybody’s favorite rodent who has never earned a dime from Disney, either seeing its shadow and signaling winter has six … Read more
I try to avoid the news cycles these days when it comes to Omicron updates. Yesterday’s “request” from Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer that we “are being urged to postpone nonessential gatherings and avoid some activities”, coupled with her previous “recommendation” to upgrade our masks to “well-fitting, higher quality medical quality, … Read more
Had a pretty lousy day of my own the other day. Thought I would actually Netflix and chill. Because I am at my core a slave to numbers, I thought I’d check out Netflix’s most-watched original movie of late, DON’T LOOK UP. Plus, I heard a lot of good things about it from my who … Read more
Yesterday President Biden delivered what most political pundits characterized as his most forceful and direct attack on Donald Trump since the 2020 presidential campaign, referring to him as a “defeated former president” time and time again during an emotional speech contextualizing and summarizing the events of the past 365 days since the 1/6/21 incident at … Read more
The entertainment world has again lost a brilliant mind with a strong game show connection. Jay Wolpert may not have been as famous as Betty White, but he was an important part of my life and his story is one that deserves to be heard. Jay was a self-described nerdy kid from Brooklyn who became … Read more
As someone who has loved the music of Billy Joel since he was an angry young man, I can find inspiration in many of his lyrics and the many memories of being in person from numerous concerts of his I’ve attended in five different decades. One of his most controversial songs was SOMETIMES A FANTASY, … Read more