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It Should Be YOUR First Day Of School, Too

Yes, it’s in the range of 100 degrees in a great deal of the country, and all reports are it will stay that way for a while.  Of course, in today’s world, that’s ideal weather for going back to school.  Here in LA, despite the unfounded fears of so many, the return begins today–yes, whether

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Media Musings

Saturday Night Blah

It’s the dog days of August, just before what I’m hoping will be a busy time of year for me, and it was humid AF.  Besides, I kind of needed to make myself scarce, if you know what I mean.   So a movie on a Saturday night made some logistical and financial sense.   BULLET TRAIN

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Media Musings

Dashing Through The Smog

Obsessions that are healthy are called passions.  Perhaps the fine line quality that separates one from the other is that people who have passions pursue them without compromising their integrity or the balance of their lives. I personally have passions about many things, some that arguably border on obsessive.   But I’m not alone in that

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Media Musings

Yosemite Zas Starts Shooting

During his first earnings call as the CEO for Warner Discovery reporting on a full quarter directly under his watch (2Q 22), David Zaslav and his team announced a $3.42B loss, slightly worse than earlier projections, mostly related to costs related to combining the two companies.  Per MSN, that figure included $2 billion spent on

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Media Musings

The End Of Days?

Yesterday’s announcement that DAYS OF OUR LIVES will be shifting from NBC to Peacock was to its fan base and those like me who were weaned on daytime broadcast network television seen as surprising; to many, apocalyptic.  But, in actuality, this was the culmination of a steady series of business-related erosions of schedules and shiftings

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Life Lessons

F-ck. He Is Gone.

Vin Scully was such a master of the spoken word, the one time I heard him say “f-ck”, even that word sounded eloquent. Once upon a time, I had a big enough job at a company that actually owned the Los Angeles Dodgers to warrant VIP treatment.  One of the only true perks I tried

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Media Musings

Costanza Politics Goes To The Polls

When Jerry Seinfeld was trying to score with a hot female police sergeant who was skeptical about his claims that he was not one of the simpletons who obsessed over watching MELROSE PLACE, he sought the advice and counsel of his friend and experienced delusionist George Costanza.  Jerry’s object of desire challenged him to take

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Life Lessons

The Office Is Closed

My BFF and I have had a nasty habit of falling back on what can only be described as gallows humor as a coping mechanism whenever we’d hear news of the passing of someone famous, or famous to us.  We’d usually wait until at least two such instances had occurred, as we know, death often

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Life Lessons

NFT. Let’s All Be There.

The NFT Expo actually is in the process of being held, in person, indoors, with a sizable number of normal people actually sane enough to not hide behind pig snouts and face diapers, in the Los Angeles Convention Center.  For me, it was a joyous reminder that the only way it is actually possible to

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