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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2p9hwy6t YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yckdmsj3 1 “You didn’t know that rock ‘n’ roll burned So you bought a candle and you loved and you learned” Mott the Hoople couldn’t weather the loss of Mick Ralphs. Who surprised us all when he jumped ship for Bad Company and evidenced skills we were unaware he had. Mott the […]

Political Advertising On Social Media

TikTok doesn’t allow it. Meanwhile, its social media competitors like Twitter and Facebook have liberalized the restrictive policies they instituted in the wake of falsehoods in the 2020 election cycle and January 6th. “Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue – In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, […]

The Baseball Game

1 What is Cracker Jill? 2 I went to three baseball games in 1961. The first time was a double-header in May, maybe June, wherein Yogi Berra hit an extra-inning single to end the game. The second time was Old-Timers Day in July. Tickets were tight and we sat in the upper deck. I cried […]

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Hubris. The reason Zaslav changed the name to Max from HBO Max is because he wants all the credit if it succeeds, and if it doesn’t…he’s been paid more than $247 million since 2018: https://tinyurl.com/mr399yh3 Quick, name the previous head of Discovery, never mind the top exec at a movie studio. You can’t. They’re not […]