And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]

The people want change. That’s been the story of the past three decades, rapid upheaval, great leaps forward with some getting ahead and some left behind and those on the left want to deny it as much as those on the right want to rewrite the history of the sixties. So now we’ve got overanalysis […]

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13JONCNdFs29FCFylgC0ou?si=3f0f2b8c90ab4577 1 The first Split Enz album I bought was their very first, “Mental Notes.” I found it in the promo bin at Rhino Records in Westwood. I’d heard of the band, but I ultimately didn’t like it. But that was the nature of promo records. They cost half or two-thirds the price […]

Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQZlovbS-o I wouldn’t exactly call it FOMO. I haven’t watched the past four seasons, I was boycotting the show and to a great degree the sport ever since Lewis Hamilton’s championship was stolen by Red Bull at the end of 2021. Actually, it’s funny, this year Christian Horner asks Netflix whether he’s going […]