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There’s Really Only One Race You Should Be Worried About, Nero.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’re probably already aware of the latest clickbaitable meme that has practically everyone in at least my social media feeds up in arms–yeah, the one that puts THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT into perhaps the most unfortunate spotlight since THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW used it as fodder for a
Time One Again To Curl Up With A Good Broom
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. It’s once again time for an Olympiad, and it’s about as welcomed as any in recent memory. For one, it’s taking place in Italy once again
Who Are You Gonna Blame For These Cancellations?
Another NATPE has come and gone, perhaps the least newsworthy one I can recall, and I’ve been around for a while. Nary a single significant project for fall 2026 was announced despite the reality that there’s an awful lot of real estate that’s now in flux. We’ve been reminded of this on a nightly basis
Is Disney Being Too Piggish About This?
You gotta hand it to Disney when it comes to tenacity about brands. As newly anointed incoming CEO Josh D’Amaro articulated yesterday in a coronation interview conducted by one of ABC”s few current category leaders, WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’s David Muir, a central component of the company’s strategy with its most zealotic fans is providing the
When You Miss The Chance To Say Hi, You’d Better Say Goodbye
You’ll forgive me if I’m a little shorter than usual today, which given my stature is all the more significant. I’ll be spending a few hours this afternoon at Forest Lawn attending a funeral of someone I haven’t seen in more than 35 years and barely knew in the first place. And I wouldn’t miss
It’s The Last Of The Ninth For FanDuel
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Turns out there is something to the concept that you can get too much of a good thing. Not that I didn’t already realize that
Bunny > Groundhog
Later this morning, as dawn descends on the hamlet of Punxsatawney PA where the thermometer currently reads a balmy 3 degrees, we will learn via a nocturnal mammal whether there will be only six more weeks of that sort of chill. Last night, we most certainly began a stretch of at least one week where
Who’ll Be The Leader Of The Club?
How fortunate for the crew at FX and their sister networks that they finally found their way onto the Disney lot as full-time residents last month–a mere six years and ten months after they were acquired. I guess they found enough time to purge and pack efficiently, which likely meant they could hit the ground
Word Of Advice, Don. Focus On 42, Not 47.
Once again, any sincere attempt to separate media and politics was made impossible by the current administration. After all, on a day when they knew millions of Epstein Files were being flooded like raw sewage and runoff that included a whole bunch of incideniary stuff and when Brett Ratner’s grifted work release project was being