If you ever deal with insomnia as I do, you’d note that a lot of these musings drop at times when many of you are fast asleep. Those of you who are awake are probably using ambient white noise along with a hot beverage for sustinence, and in my case that often means playing back … Read more
I’m not a huge beer connisseur so I never really bought into the myth that was perpetuated upon us by the team at Dos Equis that their product was endorsed by “The World’s Most Interesting Man”. Even the most casual observer and laziest internet researcher knows that was a marketing ploy that gave Jonathan Goldsmith … Read more
I fall into the demographic category where I arguably not only should be watching more PBS, I actually know what PBS is. I actually remember when it was first created, when the upbeat classic music of New York’s (well, at the time, Newark’s) Channel 13 was replaced by the synthesized tones that identified the network, … Read more
A lot’s changed on the lot that at least for the moment is still known as the Paramount headquarters in just a year. The ownership, for one. The measurement service of record, for those like me to whom that small detail matters. And, most def, what gets priority consideration in an ever-evolving landscape. When Taylor … Read more
I can’t say I’m either a connoisseur or a huge fan of country music. My first exposure to it was when the struggling New York City radio station that was home to the Mets made an ill-fated decision to introduce the genre into the country’s largest market, somehow believing there were enough people who had … Read more
When the OG version of THE RUNNING MAN hit the theatres 38 years ago I was among the first in line to see it. It pretty much hit all the tick marks my younger self needed at the time–an action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (who I had just met at 20th Century FOX’s New York … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the New York Yankees. My heart–at least the ventricle holding my baseball fandom– will always and often inexplicably belong … Read more
For all the hype and hyperbole that surrounded last night’s Monday Night Football showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the green-clad World Champion Philadelphia Iggles, the game was sadly a stinker. No frozen tundra. Scoreless at the half, only a modest Jake Elliott field goal giving Philly a precarious 3-0 lead going into the … Read more
As someone with British lineage I tend to take more than a passing interest at what transpires across the pond, and as someone who’s overseen plenty of projects involving their media and worked collaboratively with dozens of their executives, I tend to take notice when they make news. Hence when this breaking news hit my … Read more
It’s been a hot minute since the words “prestige original” and the fine folks at Sony were intertwined in the same thought, especially in the half-decade since they parted ways with moi. Oh, sure, they’ve had their fair share of successes and even a few projects that cut through the clutter to become buzzworthy … Read more