Archive for 2018/04


The New York Times Article

“Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats” A big nothingburger. You might remember David Carr taking down Tribune management. A surgical strike revealing unknown information that could not be ignored. This is not that. The problem with today’s society is legs, as in longevity, as in staying power, as in staying top of […]

Clear

Clear Felice hates to wait. It doesn’t bother me that much. I’m not saying I love the traffic, but I endure it, it’s payment for the privilege to live in SoCal. Then again, I tend not to drive during rush hour. So we were at DIA last summer and Felice became intrigued by Clear. Funny […]

Apple Buys Netflix

And you wondered what they were gonna do with all that repatriated cash. The truth is Tim Cook has been propping up the stock with buybacks for years, funnily enough borrowing the money to do so, knowing he had all that moolah overseas. But without any growth opportunities on the horizon, with no breakthrough hardware […]

Family

Why do you always learn stuff you never knew before? You grow up in the same house, stay in touch via phone and iMessage, and then you get together… And they drop a bomb. You’ve got the whole world organized in your mind, the past is clear, it’s the future you’re concerned with, and then […]