Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Is this progress? Once upon a time Taylor Swift became the biggest star in the world by testifying from the depths of her soul. And now she’s soulless. Shake it off? Isn’t this one step away from the rappers boasting how much better they are than us? I’d say […]

There’s a fiction that if I know about it, if I’m aware of it, everybody is. Furthermore, if for some reason you’re not, you’re an out of it nerd who’s got no knowledge of popular culture. But it don’t really happen that way at all. I keep receiving e-mail that Ferguson was featured in the […]

Do you know what it is? Ferguson is the first post-television news story. Used to be we turned on the box and were exposed to the world. Now the news is turning into the music business. You know the music business… A former juggernaut where everybody screamed for a decade and now there are few […]

“Simon Says” 1910 Fruitgum Company The first bubblegum hit and I absolutely HATED IT! This was ’68, “Disraeli Gears” was making an impact, as was underground FM radio, and we were subjected to this drivel on AM radio? We were going BACKWARDS! Come on, Simon Says was made for first graders, everybody soon outgrew it, […]