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The Matzoh Ball Started Early This Year
Well, this is often what happens when Chanukah finishes early. While the majority of the world is in holiday mode, those who don’t celebrate the holiday are looking for things besides the umpteenth rerun of ELF to keep themselves entertained. If you happen to be among those non-Christmas celebrants looking for a connection of sorts,

Best of ’23: Take Them Out Of The Ballgame!
I’ve taken some of the most pride in the way both this site and our sister sports site, Double Overtime have covered perhaps my personal favorite intersection, sports and media. And this year, it was nay impossible not to pay attention, as the world as we’ve known it pretty much since the mid-1970s was coming

As An Expert And A Mensch, Adam Nedeff Scores a 10.
If you’re a regular reader of these musings, you likely know the name Adam Nedeff, and you probably know him better than I do. For those of you who don’t, you should, and for a lot of reasons beyond the mere fact he can tell you more about people and shows no longer with us

Best of ’23: What Suits Netflix’s Viewers Should Suit Other Streamers’, No?
I’ve arguably been more naughty than nice to Netflix since these musings began. Why, just about a year ago a holiday “best of” harkened back to the spring of ’22, when then-chairman Reed Hastings announced their intentions to start cracking down on password sharing as their way to stop what was then a relative trickle

Best of ’23: Did Yosemite Zas Shoot Himself In The Foot? Or Did Those Taking Aim At Him?
While I admit I’m at times a bit less reverent to corporate executives who I truly wish would somehow find a way to accept me into their inner circles as many once did, when I choose to point out what they do that grinds my gears it’s not without good reason. Arguably, WBD chairman David

Best of ’23: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying? Listen To Those Who Analyze It
While the rest of the world slips into holiday mode, we’re devoting some of the final days of 2023 to revisiting some of what we would hope you would agree were some of the more on point musings we’ve done, particularly if something may be currently going on that in hindsight reinforced how on point

It’s The Least Wonderful Time Of My Year
Sure, it’s only the ides of December, but for those of you who are still fortunate enough to have a regular job your 2023, for all intents and purposes, is wrapping up today. And you don’t even have to be part of the workforce to pick up on the clues. The year-end review columns and

Mr. Monk’s Wild Ride May Not Be Quite Over
Adrian Monk knows exactly where we’ve been and what we’ve done. And he may just be where we’re all gonna go again. Say this much for NBC Universal. They may be not be winning any streaming wars in terms of subscribers (they literally took a victory lap when they recently announced that Peacock hit 30

Look What Teddy Claus Gave Us For The Holidays
In the middle of Chanukah, and just 12 days before the 12 days of Christmas, research geeks and media pundits around the world were given a big, shiny data dump as a holiday gift, courtesy of Netflix. Why thank you, Teddy. How thoughtful of you. And only in a world where the mystique and aura