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Too Much Of Anything Can Make One Sick
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME. Please visit it regualrly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional coverage of business and technology. Whenever I’d cast focus groups for the coveted demographic sliver of 15-29 year olds that advertisers feverishly believe is where lifelong consumer behaviors are
If You’re Gonna Harp On Natalie, You Oughta Call Out The Rest Of The Choir
Try as one might, unless you’re totally off the grid one can’t escape the inexorable grip that one Natalie Harp seems to have on just about anyone capable of offering an opinion. It seems roughly a third of America wants to canonize her, a third wants to condemn her and a third wants to sodomize
Charter Swallows Cox. Where’s The Emergency Podcast For That?!?!
I get that it’s a busy time of year for a lot of y’all. Moving kids into their dorms is a big and emotional deal. One last summer fling for those with later timetables is a priority. And, of course, specultating on what in tarnation is going on in the poor frazzled mind of Natalie
The Last OG Of FX
We all know that everything eventually comes to an end. Although if you grow up as much of a Red Sox fan as Chuck Saftler did, you might not necessarily believe that truth as much as the average person does. His beloved Sawx went 86 years before they won the 2004 World Series–a fact that
As Long As It’s Bigger, Who Cares If It’s Real?
I knew my days at FX were numbered when the head of HR took my side when my boss and I had a heated dispute over the accuracy of digital data that reached its peak when he exploded in rage through the paper thin walls of our mediocre new digs to a decibel level few
His Book May Not Be Quite Closed For Good
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. It’s appropriate that Howie Rose’s final season as a full-time announcer for the New York Mets has essentially been a microcosm and exemplary of
Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
I’ve never not liked Rosie O’Donnell, though I will confess there were times my relationship with her was more positive than others. When I first saw her bray her way through several wins on the OG STAR SEARCH I found her Long Island-tinged shtick relatable and pointed. I enjoyed her as comedic relief amidst more
What If “Nepomogul” Has Georgia On His Mind? Maybe There’s Some Valid Reasons Why.
It’s pretty easy to find reasons to dislike David Ellison, especially in the wake of his recent draconian op-eds and surreptitious meetings with his trusted allies at Paramount Skydance where it was discovered that he’s plotting to take his talents–more importantly, those of the remaining creatives and decision-makers he hasn’t already jettisoned or already has
A Light At The End Of A Tunnel?
If you happen to be one of the obsessives who declare themselves fans of a “CU”, of late those letters have had the word “latah” follow them. We already mused yesterday about how modest Disney’s ROI on its MCU has been this year (bearing in mind Sony reaps the majority of the immediate benefits on