Comes before attention. Once everybody’s paying attention you can’t walk back your personality, you can’t undo the changes, whore yourself out to get noticed and that will be an imprimatur upon your “brand” forevermore. But maybe you don’t care. Kind of like Kim Kardashian and the rest of the influencers. Sure, they’ve got legions of […]

You will always feel left out, left behind, out of it. Everybody is cool in their own way. The old concept of coolness was based on scarcity. In a limited universe we look inward, in an unlimited one we look outward. Posting is not belonging, just a facsimile thereof. Everybody is a star. When there […]

I finished the tapes. Now it’s your turn. I can’t believe I dedicated 13 hours to a TV show. Sure, my mother was always telling us to turn off the damn box, to go outside and play, it was literally illegal to watch during the day, hell, she placed the damn set where there was […]

My inbox went quiet. Are we in a constitutional crisis, is it the end of the world as we know it, or is it business as usual? I DON’T KNOW! The internet is de rigueur. Everybody’s got a smartphone. Technologically we’re up to date, but emotionally we haven’t digested the change. Twenty-odd years ago we […]