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It’s Either Sadness or Euphoria
I just got back from a wonderful and much needed respite away from the torture chamber I call Los Angeles. While the temperature was far colder, the reception was warmer. Dear friends became closer, a beautiful special friend in particular, and I learned I should never, ever allow myself to be talked into Little Caesar’s
War. What Is It Good For? Ratings!!!
I’ve never spent a minute serving my country and given my artillery skills we’re all probably better off for that. I’m hardly an expert at what the impact on war can be on a family or an individual. But I do believe I know what war can do for a media entity. Which is why
Welcome to the Next Period
Welcome to the next period of my life and my passion. No, my passion may not be the one you were thinking I’d say. For as much as love, health, entertainment, politics and desire for relevance and human interaction fuel my livelihood and essence my passion is, unabashedly, sports. I don’t play many, and I’m
S’Marvelous. Even in Smaller Portions.
A new season of THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL dropped this weekend on Prime Video. For me and millions of other devotees that was big news, and you better believe I found time to watch it. For each of the show’s first three seasons, that devotion produced a dilemma of the proportion of the angst that
Happy 102nd Birthday?
Recently I engaged in an online debate with a fellow game show geek who insisted on referencing the anniversary of the birth of a now deceased celebrity as a birthday. My argument, admittedly snarky, referenced the fact that the person whose date of birth was being honored was no longer able to have a presence
Hot Cheetos and Takis and Reach
My poor little surgically altered stomach can’t quite handle spicy foods, so I’m typically frustrated when I get a craving for a snack and see more different variations of flamin’ hot chips, popcorn, burgers and pizza at my local strip mall. I’m well aware that the likely reason these flavors dominate the shelves is because
Lag Time?
The Super Bowl viewership figures came out yesterday, one of the few situations these days where research (excuse me: data science) executives crunching numbers are held in as high esteem as the executives and pundits who they typically slave away for anonymously. Later yesterday, ViacomCBS held its investor day, which by its end saw its
The Year of No Cats
If you were looking for the Kitten Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday as I was, you may have been as distressed as I was to learn that the Hallmark Channel had discontinued it, choosing human love for its Valentine’s Day movie marathon over pet love. Yesterday’s news that its former CEO Bill Abbott, now heading
Be My Quaran-Tine?
Dearest Barbara, A few weeks ago I wrote at length about how much your valued intelligence and leadership was so influential on my life and health. Your institutional medical knowledge and unwavering dedication to “trusting your team of medical experts” is constantly cited every time your beautiful face pops up from some remote location in