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It’s Not Easy Being Green…And Sometimes It Is
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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Two Out of Three Ain’t Good
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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Free.  At Last.
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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Number please
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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Creative Non-Exclusivity
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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Going in A Different Direction
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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Life Lessons

Playing Games The Right Way

Ten years ago this month I was hired for what some accurately called an inevitability.  I was given the chance to head programming and scheduling for GSN, otherwise known as Game Show Network.  In the impeccable words of yet another prematurely departed colleague, the eloquent David Lyle, it was akin to putting Dracula in charge

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Did You Know Amy Schneider Outperformed Justin Herbert?
Media Musings

Did You Know Amy Schneider Outperformed Justin Herbert?

No one close to me died yesterday, thank G-d, so I could move on to something else.  And, thankfully, JEOPARDY! has moved on from its troubled 2021 to a stellar start in 2022 both ratings and zeitgeist-wise.  Now under the supervision of Michael Davies, who moonlights as a very passionate soccer (ahem , “football”) fan

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