When I first saw the news of yet another former colleague and, I’d like to believe, friend meeting an untimely professional demise, my first reaction once again defaulted to Jay Leno’s opening salvo at Hugh Grant after we learned he chose to drive around Hollywood in search of a hooker rather than go home to … Read more
Sure, it’s more than 100 degrees outside. Inside my store, and in countless coffee shops around this sweltering nation, it’s clearly Halloween. Overpriced life-sized animatronics occupy an entire corridor where I toil, giving customers the option to invest what they otherwise might in necessary repairs for the chance to turn their lawn into a theme … Read more
Probably one of the more uplifting stories I’ve seen in recent days was the one I saw via my Substack feed from Brian Stelter. For the non-subscribers out there (and you should rectify that ASAP), THE NEW YORK TIMES’ Benjamin Mullin let them in on the secret shortly after Stelter released it himself: Brian Stelter, … Read more
Another Labor Day has come and gone, and once again so has the availability of the panoply of Disney-owned networks on a significant MVPD. Last year, Charter; this year, it’s DIRECTV. The leaves will soon turn, but the stomachs of many tech-simplistic fans of football, tennis and JEOPARDY! already have. As USA TODAY’s Mike Snider … Read more
I’ve always been at a crossroads when it comes to being tasked with analyses that have agendas attached to them. On many occasions, I was instructed by financial executives to do post-mortems on movies and shows that had just taken six and seven-figure hits to their bottom lines for costs associated with entries into festivals. … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for expanded coverage of sports, as well as feature articles from Binary Web. Forget what your calendar and thermometer might otherwise be telling you. Autumn has officially begun, and it’s not just because pumpkin lattes are back on Starbucks’ menus … Read more
Most days, media headlines revolve around folks I’m familiar with but often never crossed paths with. Every now and then, someone who I do have a connection to will be in the news; lately such names tend to be part of long lists of those being laid off. But yesterday, two folks I have more … Read more
My ex and I were often lax in keeping our home free of clutter. OK, we probably would have been considered prime candidates for the series HOARDERS. But even we would eventually reach a point where we’d be overwhelmed enough to hold a garage sale to get a little bit of extra cache out of … Read more
No, I didn’t miss the news that broke last week from Nielsen when it finally dropped their semi-timely monthly clickbait they call THE GAUGE. They’ve conditioned most mainstream media trade sites to hold a spot in their news cycles when it releases their information roughly three weeks into the following calendar month, ostensibly to include … Read more
I had some mild awareness of Adam Conover before yesterday, though I was hardly a rabid fan. He fronted what truTV classified as a scripted comedy series called ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING for four years during an era where it ran in rotation with a host of clearly unscripted ones, the most successful being IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, … Read more