Archive for 2012/11


NASCAR Lessons

Remember when NASCAR was the sport of the future? Doing boffo at not only the b.o, but on TV? When it appealed to all ages and all sexes and all ethnicities? Those days are through. NASCAR has cratered. Yesterday’s “Wall Street Journal” has got an article about it, check it out: Nascar’s Leaky Fuel Tank […]

Forgotten

Van Halen, ZZ Top, Donald Fagen and now Aerosmith. What do they all have in common? They put out new albums and they expected the world to care. For the waters to part and people to partake. They’re all utilizing a seventies model and that was forty years ago. Wanna succeed today? Know who your […]

History

SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You may be angry that Apple changed its connector, but look what backward compatibility did for Microsoft… It kept the company in the doldrums to the point where the Redmond enterprise completely missed tablet computing […]

Nicole Westbrook-It’s Thanksgiving

Nicole Westbrook-It’s Thanksgiving The joke is on us. And the only people who don’t get it are the music business establishment, the usual suspects complicit in creating the drivel that pours out of Top Forty radio, compounding cliches as they parade around believing they’re Masters of the Universe. The truth is…ANYONE CAN DO IT! That’s […]