Archive for 2017


Adam Sandler On Netflix

First one in or last one out? Who do you want to be? It’s your choice. The rewards are at the front end, but so are the risks. And the last to arrive gets safety, if they get in at all, but bupkes bucks. Howard Stern went to satellite. Since then, twelve years, not a […]

The Power Of One

“ESPN Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field” A movement starts with an individual. I don’t know when our nation moved to groupthink. But maybe it was the anti-disco fervor of the late seventies that was its first visible exponent. When white males got together at Comiskey Park and blew up disco records, […]

The Paul Simon Exhibit

“Paul Simon: Words & Music” You’ve got to hook ’em with the very first line. Some things never change. Just like hip-hop is the sound of the streets and rock and roll is overbaked. That’s when Paul Simon turned away from rock to folk, when the former was repetitive and the latter was saying something, […]

A Startup

Is like a band. You need a leader with a vision, and a group of players who come together in furtherance of the sound. Assuming you want to have a hit. Most bands never succeed. And neither do most startups. Yesterday I went to a WeWork space in Playa Vista. That’s right, there’s a tech […]