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Getting Even, Steven

NOTE:  This also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com.   Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. Yesterday should have been more celebratory for moi.  Thanks to a one-time surprise gift and some opportune timingin hitting up an aftermarket ticket site, I was able to secure a nosebleed ticket for what turned out to

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Media Musings

Movie Or TV Show, THE APPRENTICE Is Still A Bomb

Well, the public has spoken.  And the track record of content called THE APPRENTICE continues to be somewhere between underwhelming and pathetic. This past weekend, the movie of that name finally opened after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying, buyouts, politically incentivized rhetoric and outright campaigning for the world at large to have the chance to see

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Media Musings

Memo To Self: Never Wait To Check In

You may not have known the name Dick Block even if you consider yourself to be a true fan of media history and content.  His most recent full-time executive position ended more than three decades ago, and his first was in the days where UHF over-the-air television was the disruptive equivalent of Netflix.  And UHF

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Media Musings

Como Arenas a Través del Reloj de Arena…

It sure seems that streaming services are being run by and for folks who clearly think folks in my age bracket are afterthoughts.  And that’s a shame, because I happen to fall into a clearly growing sector of it that continue to embrace, pivot and even default to them, despite their inability to grasp the

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Media Musings

From Tiffany To Target?

CBS was once called the Tiffany network, and its news division, spearheaded by what was regularly the most-watched program on television, 60 MINUTES, was a huge reason in the minds of its viewers and sponsors why that was the case.  No, you may not be old enough to remember such halycon days, but I’ve seen

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Media Musings

Use Us Or Lose Us

Many of these musings come from something either inspiring or incendiary than happen in the normal course of human events –sometimes both simultaneously.  Sometimes they come in droves, which means there might be a lag in just when I find enough time to articulate some sort of point of view that I believe will resonate

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News Notions

Imagine If She Could Play A Musical Instrument

As if in direct response to the nonstop taunts from the likes of FOX NEWS that have provided a daily updating of how many public appearances she has made in contrast to her opponent since she was anointed as the Democrats’ savior, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are seizing upon a down week for the

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Life Lessons

Still Thirsty For Sensible Answers

If you’re one of the handful of people who have found these musings via the site formerly known as Twitter, nice to e-meet you.  But I’m afraid we probably disagree on a few issues, and based upon what I’m consistently being served up during the nanoseconds I spend on the site to share my musings,

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Media Musings

I Have Few Words. But, Fortunately, Others Do.

A year ago, I woke up to the disturbing news that came out of Israel that, 50 years and a day after the outbreak of the Six-Day War, the country came under attack once again.  This time, not by a nation, but an ideology. I’d like to say I was as mortified and activated as

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