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For A Generation That Desperately Needs It, Euphoria’s Back At Last
For all of the awards and audience that HBO and whatever it chooses to call its streaming iterations have achieved in this century perhaps its most significant accomplishment has been to consistently be the home of a cultural icon that focuses on relationships and which seems to define the dominant generation of each decade. In
Was Any Line REALLY Crossed Besides The Sideline?
Dianne Russini has been a celebrated and respected reporter for such notable outlets as WNBC-TV, WRC-TV, ESPN and most recently THE ATHLETIC for the better part of the last two decades. When she transitioned to the digital realm she was reportedly given a substantial increase in salary and a prominent role in their podcasting universe
It’s Now Malcolm In The Midlife (Crisis?)
Hopefully, we’ve all become better people than we were at the turn of the century. Personally, I may still be without spouse or child, but there’s a lot less of me to love or hate, and I’d like to believe there’s more of y’all that are inclined toward the former. In the case of one
Seems Like Puck’s Got The Balls Once Again
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus essays on business and technology. It’s not easy for me to acknowledge when PUCK gets something first and right. I can’t say I’m a fan of its founder and champion to
A Shell Of What He Once Was
We knew the headlines that dominated both the trades and general press yesterday were imminent. Anyone who has been following the saga of Jeff Shell over recent weeks saw it coming. Anyone who’s been regularly reading these musings know I’ve been following it a lot longer than most. I’ve written quite a bit about the
Well, It WAS TACO Tuesday
There was once a time when I was actively in enough demand for my skill sets where companies I was interested in working for would gleefully describe their perks during our negotiations. During my pas-de-deux with Game Show Network the effusive HR consultant who championed my candidacy piad particular homage to the fact that they
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
If you’re seasoned enough, or merely a fan of Broadway musicals, you might know that the inspiration for the clickbait to today’s musing is a wonderful work that originally debuted in 1961 and was subsequently revived for later generations to enjoy. Depending upon which one you fall into, you’ll identify with either Robert Morse, Matthew
A Book That Makes You Go Hmmm….
No, I haven’t actually met Arsenio Hall–not even professionally. It’s kind of a shame considering we’ve essentially had parallel lives–though he’s undoubtedly been a lot smarter about what he’s done with his success than I’ve been with mine. We both arguably peaked in the late ’80s and early ’90s; me rising to head up programming
Nearly Half A Century Later, MLB Fans Again Hit A Jackpot
It was all the more serendipitous that during a week where the world celebrates resurrection baseball fans were able to celebrate one of their own. We got our first whiff of it on Wednesday courtesy of AWFUL ANNOUNCING’s Sam Neumann: This Week in Baseball is coming back. MLB announced Wednesday that it’s reviving the iconic TWIB franchise as