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Shop ‘Til You Crop?
Yesterday I did a little food shopping. I bought a few staples at Pavilion’s, early in the morning to optimize time waiting in line but dodging delivery people, boxes of items being loaded onto the shelves and not having access to an available manager to ask questions about anything new that caught my eye that
The Bela of the Ball
Bela Bajaria is arguably the world’s most powerful creative executive. She’s so good she replaced a woman (Cindy Holland) who earned her company more than a trillion dollars over 16 years and in on a pace to eclipse that. How good is she? We simply don’t know. As Netflix’s head of global TV, Bajaria shepherds
Bye Bye Boo Boo
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life. Tomorrow I have a post-operative checkup with the surgeon who repaired a ventral hernia at the end of last month, the third time in 21 months I was put under anethesia. The experience was a damn sight better than the first time, when I
It’s Always the Game
A lot of file space was devoted here late in the summer to the saga of Mike Richards, my former Sony colleague whose rapid fall from newly anointed heir to Alex Trebek’s throne to the loss of an eight-figure salary and public shaming that had him reduced to a punch line by Labor Day. As
F It All
Frances Haugen started trending this past weekend and literally broke the internet in the next 48 hours. Call it the epitome of irony. Haugen, a former Facebook employee, gave a powerful interview to 60 MINUTES Sunday night and compelling testimony to Congress yesterday, blowing the whistle on what she described as a business culture that
The World According to Costanza
The above phrase, a signature of the immortal philopsopher George Costanza, may very well explain everything from last week’s folding of controversial digital media firm Ozy Media to the global phenomenon of Squid Game, let alone the popularity of ivermectin. Many who have compared my hairline to George’s have equated Leblanguage to Costanzan. At its
Not any given Sunday
The first Sunday of October, arguably the first true vestige of fall. Except here on the edge of Culver City it will be in the 90s, feel like summer, and be the appropriate backdrop for what bodes to be the most exciting final day of major league baseball Leblanguage has seen since he first developed
Does anything really die?
Yesterday I had a minor surgical procedure that had me under anethesia for the first time since my major health scare Christmas 2019. And NBC brought LAW AND ORDER back from the dead. In Leblanguage, these events are indeed connected. The revival of LAW AND ORDER, scheduled for NBC and Peacock next year 13 years
The Curse of the Mask?
I fucking LOVE football. I’ve purchased a LOT of face masks. And recently I’ve begun to build out my collection of jerseys and outerwear as well, Naturally I think there’s a connection to these passions. As we head out of September and into the heart of the NFL season let’s do a quick recap of