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Life Lessons

Happy Birthday, Name Withheld

By some chance, are you or do you happen to know someone who is celebrating a birthday today? Better yet, might it happen to be a milestone birthday? If so, I wish you or that person a very happy birthday. I’d love more than anything to wish one particular celebrant just that.  But we’re currently

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Media Musings

A Bandwagon Five Decades In The Making

One of the few bright spots of this horrific new year has been the meteoric rise in the popularity of WORDLE, an online word guessing game which has exploded in a manner of months to more than 300,000 daily players, per the New York Times, myself included. The object of WORDLE is to guess a

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Life Lessons

It’s Not Easy Being Green…And Sometimes It Is

Last night I was supposed to be in a hockey arena in a town that was more than 60 degrees colder in temperature than where I was, but to me has always been eminently warmer.  Never has that disparity been more evident than last night. Oswego, New York is hardly a tourist mecca, particularly in

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Life Lessons

Two Out of Three Ain’t Good

Good Lord, 2022.  Does every weekend of yours HAVE to start out with multiple deaths that dominate my social media timelines???! Yesterday I woke up to the news that both Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson had both left this world, both sizable talents who didn’t quite make three-quarters of a century. Like so many of my

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Life Lessons

Free. At Last.

I’ve previously written about what it was like to spend Christmas 2019 recovering from a cholecystectomy (gall bladder surgery, to those who may be polysyllyabically challenged),  My liver had been damaged by the sepsis attack that I had, and post surgery, I had to have a drainage bag attached to my right side in order

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Media Musings

Number please

Yesterday I very briefly caught a display ad on a trade site that signaled that my former colleagues at Sony were very quietly making available weekly episodes of THE GOOD DOCTOR and S.W.A.T. to local television stations in the fall of 2022.  These days, the repeats of any television program being made available to over-the-air

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Life Lessons

Who, What, Where And Why

Life has gotten so disparate and desperate that the mere idea of having lunch with friends has become worrisome and complicated.  With the recent onslaught of longtime friends departing this world before I got the chance to see them in person again, I felt particularly eager to keep a standing date my BFF and I

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Media Musings

Creative Non-Exclusivity

When the viewership figures for this past weekend’s NFL wild card games are released later today you will note all the sizzle points will reference “total audience”. Although each licensee directs viewers to a primary linear network, each of them used additional networks or platforms to augment their total reach.  Some media pundits call this

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Life Lessons

Going in A Different Direction

“North, East, South or West?” That’s how I answered the gentleman who manages the local California Pizza Kitchen near my apartment who last week informed me, after a nearly four month process of applications, video uploads, reference checks and interviews they were “going in a different direction” to give someone else a steady, paying job

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