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Best of ’25: Not Everybody’s Live, John. Until They Have A Reason To Be.
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped

Best Of ’25–Well, Now She’s Not Just My Girl
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped

Best Of ’25: When You Have To Scramble This Much, Maybe You Just Throw The Ball Away?
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped

Best of ’25: Michael Chiklis Is Having A Senior Moment. It Could Precede Another Historic Award
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped

Best of ’25: Is CBS News About To Undergo A Bari-Um Enema?
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped

Now Is The Winter Of Their Discontent
”Twas the weekend before Christmas, and if you’re a younger person you’re statistically more likely than not to be headed home to family. But if you happen to be among those who felt especailly motivated and/or disenfranchised by the perils of life on Earth, you may have instead headed to Phoenix, Arizona, where tens of

Will Fire And Ash Finally Be The Elements That Open Pandora’s Box?
There are very few things a Hollywood executive can count on these days; certainly the thankfully almost-concluded year of 2025 has underscored that reality. But one of the scarily scant number of chalk bets that do remain is that a movie produced by James Cameron will draw a crowd to theatres and find a way

A Little Whine With Your Eggnog?
It”s an unfortunate reality of the media business calendar that the come-to-Jesus moments for those whose livelihoods rely on hard numbers occur around the times of the holidays themselves. Such results are usually received around the time that the “hard eight” weeks of the advertising year come to an end–the ones where a goodly number

Pretty Soon, There’s Gonna Be A Lot Less To See Inside THIS Box
Once again, the best laid plans of mice and men oft times go astray, especially when this man was intending to muse about a mouse of a project that dropped yesterday on Netflix (more on that–but, pinky promise, not all that much more–in a tad). But then as has tended to be the case more