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Genius, Maybe. Most Def NOT A Schmuck
It’s funny how an ostensibly interactive medium remains a one-way funnel most of the time in my case. With rare exceptions do I get any feedback or response even when I post encouraging and positive responses to people. I get that almost everyone else has priorities in their lives like jobs and immediate families that
Spare Me Your Pride. And Your Prejudice.
NOTE: This musing recently appeared on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sports plus occasional essays on business and technology. Before I begin, I want to preface with the qualifier that I personally have many friends who are people of faith and many who are
In Praise Of Older Hagglers
One of the few positives about my ex’s family was her infatiguable grandmother, who effectively was the glue that held its disparate dysfunctional members together for all but a handful of the 100 years and 1 day she graced this Earth. While she physically deteriortated over the years I was blessed to know her, her
FOX Moves In A New–And Familiar–DIRECT-ion
About 2200 machers both current and aspirational converged on Denver yesterday for an increasingly busy confab know as the Stream TV Show, which given that NATPE and Real Screen are history and Cannes isn’t in everyone’s budget has been positioned and poised to become all the more significant. Boy, did their bars and restaurants get
Full Disclosure: I’m As Much To Blame For This Meh Box Office As Any Steven
I had every intention of finding a way to the movies this past weekend to see DISCLOSURE DAY. I’m proudly of a generation and mindset that considers Steven Spielberg to be the greatest director of the late 20th century and the greatest one still alive. Not that I have much against the genius of a
For Once, The Knicks Had The Keys To Victory
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional reports on business and technology. If you’re a New York native, you’re swimming with pride today even if you can’t tell a basketball from a handball. For the first time
Go With The Flow. Or Just Go.
I know it’s difficult to let go of something when you’re simply too emotionally wrapped up in it to take that otherwise simple action. Today would have been my dad’s 94th birthday, though he never got to celebrate the last 12. Like so many days in this period between Mother’s Day and the mid-July day
In Defense Of All Remaining Clock Builders
I’ve been accused by a few more impatient yet loyal readers of being overly wordy so in a rare moment of TL;DR acknowledgment I’ll put this question up front that I honestly am at a total loss to try to answer: If it’s your show to run, do you prefer progress over process? For those
Hope This Time I Can Focus On This Cup
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of all sports plus occasional essays on business and technology, At long last the World Cup is set to begin actual competition, after a drumroll and build-up that’s been as politically tainted as anything we’ve seen