Archive for 2011/02


More Live Nation

Compaq built a blockbuster business providing a product IBM would not.  Personal computers containing the latest chip. Not only did Compaq’s PCs contain the latest hardware, it was tested a multitude of times, Compaq was Mercedes-Benz.  A very profitable business satiating a growing customer base.  Until its lunch was eaten by Dell. Dell said computer […]

Randy Phillips Once Again

Bob, I read your column on Live Nation with great interest yesterday.  If you dialed into one of their quarterly analysts’ calls, read their myriad of press releases, and/or reprinted their 10K, you could have saved the time it took you to drive to Civic Center Drive.  The following are some of my responses since […]

Getting Better

Last week Stern was on Letterman. I gave up watching Dave fifteen years ago, when he put on the suit and started catering to a theoretical demographic which I did not belong to.  Old people.  The irreverence was gone.  Paul Shaffer’s group went from being the World’s Most Dangerous Band to the CBS Orchestra.  Need […]

What I Love About The Internet

From: Aaron LevinsonRe: Aaron Lewis "Country Boy" Aaron Lewis is a Russian Jew like you and me who grew up in Longmeadow MA. An all white town with a household median income of $90,000. A country boy? Please. Get real. ________________________________ he may have been born in rutland but im pretty sure he grew up […]