Nature abhors a vacuum. You cannot compete with TikTok and Instagram when it comes to social media. And you cannot compete with Apple and Android when it comes to smartphones. However, you can compete with the three major labels very easily. The tools of production and the avenues of distribution are in the hands of […]

1 He’s dead. The media has been positively shocked that a film with uniformly negative reviews is doing so well at the box office. After all, isn’t Michael Jackson a child molester in a zero tolerance era? Look at Cesar Chavez, he was scrubbed from modern life within a week. Whereas with Michael Jackson new […]

This goes off the rails in the last two episodes. We were watching three series at once, “Beef,” “Drops of God” and “Mudtown.” I occasionally do this with books, when nothing grabs me, I read a chapter of each in rotation and then wait to find a book I want to continue to read. Same […]

You’re trying to get lucky. And to do that, you’ve got to go where the people are, and that’s social media. Let’s leave aside the potential deleterious effects of social media, the bottom line is that’s where trends are started, where records are broken, where true fans live, and when you’re not on TikTok, Instagram […]