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This Gun Has Been Successfully Reloaded. And It’s Not Even Naked.
I needed something stupid funny like breath in the summer of 1982. My grandmother had recently passed a mere 14 months after her husband did, proving at least to me conclusively that even elderly people can die of a broken heart. It did leave me with an opportunity to squat in her apartment, giving me
Surprise. A Semi-Autonomous Carr Doesn’t Crash.
I can’t imagine it’s easy being Brendan Carr these days. He’s only one of five commissioners serving the Federal Communications Commission these days, but he’s undoubtedly the most prominent and polarizing. Sort of comes with the territory when you’ve emerged as the de facto hatchet man for the “game plan” that your exceptionally media-obsessed and
A Reminder Why ESPN Is Always Abbreviated
Unless you’re of a certain vintage and/or a student of TV history you might now know that ESPN is actually an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. It wasn’t supposed to have that name; it was always intended to be a 24/7 destination for sports. But when it launched in the fall of 1979
As Sequels Go, It’s A Happy Medium
Adam Sandler was pretty well known on the Sony lot as a pretty good hang, especially from those who worked for him and his partners at his Happy Madison production company. Cordial and welcoming to just about everyone, rarely working late hours so that he could be home for his family, and always willing to
The MCU Takes First Steps Toward Recovery
It was arguably one of the more crucial weekends in the history of the Marvel Comic Universe. For two decades these storied entertainment brands have been joined at the hip to produce a litany of reinvigorated and novel reasons both to schlep out to the movies and to plunk down a monthly fee to rewatch
The Somewhat Credible Hulk
Hulk Hogan died earlier this week, yet another larger-than-life celebrity who transcended generations based on his earlier success as a performer and his later success as a reality TV personality. But unlike the similarly auspiced Ozzy Osbourne, whom we warmly mused about earlier this week, Hogan was the epitome of an enigma–a word that contrary
Maybe We Should Be Having More Animated Conversations?
I finally got around to watching the season premiere of SOUTH PARK last night, though thanks to the dozens of stories that popped up in my inbox I already had a pretty good idea of what it was about. The fact that I still had the ability to even access it all on Paramount Plus
Remember, One Can’t Spell Versant Without VS
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology and business. In terms of breaking news items in media, the one that THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s veteran sports and media expert Joe Flint dropped late Wednesday diminished in
Still Some Shine Left On Those Floors
Yesterday was not a great day to be either a media consumer or an American no matter what side of the aisle your seat is as you’re riding this increasingly turbulent plane. In an almost dizzying array of breaking news, we saw the team leading our country to allegedly the greatest six months in our