Doesn’t mean as much as it used to. I remember growing up, going to the Yankee game, we told our friends we would be there, to look out for us on TV. To be on TV was the thrill of a lifetime. Just to be seen, never mind heard. But today, being on television is […]

“Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu”: https://bit.ly/488Y0yH   Literally. This book made me feel inadequate, like I hadn’t lived life to the fullest. Thank god I still have some time left, but I could never catch up. Now I know Tom Freston. I even know the outline of most of these stories, a bit of […]

They said it wouldn’t make any difference. So I’m grooving up the 405 and the check engine light comes on. Now in the old days, there was not such a thing. But as cars started to feature them, it turned out that many times it was just a matter of a loose gas cap. But […]

Last night Bill Maher said the average price of a Taylor Swift ticket was over $4000. Really. My favorite story on this came from Tony Wilson. His first job out of Oxbridge was in a television news department. On a Saturday night he collected the European football scores and the newsreader got them wrong. Tony […]