3. WITHIN 12 MONTHS, THE TRUMP/MUSK “ALLIANCE” WILL BE NO MORE–AND WILL END BADLY So who’s your selection for the Power Couple of 2024? Seems like everyone has an opinion on that, if for no other reason than we simply can’t resist both the appeal and the ability to envy two people of like mind … Read more
If I appear even snarkier and surlier of late than usual, and I freely admit my usual level is well above sea level, that may be because at a time of a year when many of you are looking forward to bonuses, tax refunds and possibly even raises I learned earlier this week that my … Read more
I hadn’t thought much about Gary the Veeper in recent years, even in my loneliest and more nostalgia-filled moments. One tries to bury sources of childhood torment as deeply as possible. Gary lived in my neighborhood, though we were hardly friends. Gary had few friends, mostly swaggering his way through classes with bravado that his … Read more
I frequently cite, and sometimes am forced to chide, a prolific and detailed observer of data from the streaming world who goes by the psuedonym THE ENTERTAINMENT STRATEGY GUY. What I know about him is that he was a veteran of a couple of platforms and spent an awful lot of time parsing data from … Read more
Depending upon what side of the political aisle you may be on, you either cheered or threw up in your mouth when you may have come across the image and story that the world first learned of Wednesday morning, via such sources as POLITICO’s Meredith McGraw: Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s … Read more
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
One of the more colorful–literally–peddlers of content I’ve ever dealt with was a glib silver-maned salesman who insisted his “friends” refer to him as “The Colonel”. He supposedly was a war veteran, but you wouldn’t know it from his garish fashion choices–almost always preferring light-colored sweater vests to dark suit jackets. Among the titles he … Read more
How apropos–or perhaps ironic–that over a holiday weekend where I’m told people were spending time with family members (not in my case, mind you) that the breaking news alerts that popped up most frequently involved politicians and their respective family members. Perhaps the noisiest was the one that happened yesterday that CNN’s duo of Marshall … Read more
In slightly more normal times a Group of Five conference tournament for a secondary women’s sport would be wholly unworthy of any sort of spotlight. The Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament final that was held yesterday wasn’t even worthy of a tile on ESPN+, and the report from a local beat writer, Kevin Lytle … Read more
There’s plenty one could say about Patrick Soon-Shiong that I’ll allow would be accurate observations. Rich? Heck, yes. Has made billions in biotech and doesn’t shy away from defending how it can save the world. Civic-minded? Gotta give him that; at least he was willing to step up and bail out the Los Angeles TIMES … Read more