Hey, First Buddy.  Here’s A Far Better Tire For You To Kick

Hey, First Buddy. Here’s A Far Better Tire For You To Kick

MEMO TO: ELON MUSK, Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. Owner, CTO and executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter) President of the Musk Foundation Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) Co-Chair of the Department of Government Efficiency FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT, SL MEDIA ENTERPRISES RE:  POTENTIAL “TRADITIONAL … Read more

Sklarvelous!

Sklarvelous!

When a friend who just happens to be a genius schleps across the country to buy you a drink, you drop what you’re doing and make sure you take them up on it.  At least that’s my mindset these days.  Once we get ten days into a month, I’ll take any offer for any sustinence … Read more

Comeback “Player” Of The Year?

Comeback “Player” Of The Year?

I’m particularly gratified these days when people are genuinely surprised when they find out my actual age.  I take particular pride in how I’ve been able to physically retool myself enough that the photograph on my driver’s license, now nearly a decade old, looks absolutely nothing like how I do now and people–even the most … Read more

The Master Mensch Of Child’s Play

The Master Mensch Of Child’s Play

I’m at a life stage where unfortunately when I get private outreaches from friends/fans it often isn’t good news.  It’s not that we necessarily obsess about death per se; it’s just the reality that many of the folks who helped shaped our career paths and in many cases were directly responsible for the quality of … Read more

The Best Man For The Worst Job?

The Best Man For The Worst Job?

My heart truly goes out to the rank and file of what remains of Paramount Global during this holiday season, and it sure appears that a lot less of it will exist once we enter the New Year.  THE WRAP’s chief deep diver Lucas Manfredi dropped this dour update yesterday on the progress of the … Read more

What Is Cost-Efficient?

What Is Cost-Efficient?

It’s not easy to fathom that there’s been sort of an austerity movement at an outlet like Prime Video, especially at a time of year when those Amazon Prime members are getting their money’s worth from those annual subscriptions.  But since outside of NFL games we haven’t seen a peep of bravado lately for anything … Read more

We Love Them.  Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

We Love Them. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

The joke I used to try to tell in order to determine how generationally disparate people were was to ask them to describe Paul McCartney.  No matter how they’d respond, I’d always quip “We would have been in trouble if I would have had to remind you that he was in band before WINGS.  We … Read more