Unless you’re of a certain vintage and/or a student of TV history you might now know that ESPN is actually an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. It wasn’t supposed to have that name; it was always intended to be a 24/7 destination for sports. But when it launched in the fall of 1979 … Read more
Adam Sandler was pretty well known on the Sony lot as a pretty good hang, especially from those who worked for him and his partners at his Happy Madison production company. Cordial and welcoming to just about everyone, rarely working late hours so that he could be home for his family, and always willing to … Read more
It was arguably one of the more crucial weekends in the history of the Marvel Comic Universe. For two decades these storied entertainment brands have been joined at the hip to produce a litany of reinvigorated and novel reasons both to schlep out to the movies and to plunk down a monthly fee to rewatch … Read more
I finally got around to watching the season premiere of SOUTH PARK last night, though thanks to the dozens of stories that popped up in my inbox I already had a pretty good idea of what it was about. The fact that I still had the ability to even access it all on Paramount Plus … 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. 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