Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


The U2 EP

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where it takes sixtysomething rockers from Ireland to light the way in a somnambulant music landscape? One in which the Irish rockers were brought up on a divided island where the IRA fought for… We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969. But it […]

Bud Cort

I found out he died in the “CT Insider,” which Apple News+ suggested to me probably because my sister Wendy sent me so many articles from the publication. And I wondered whether I was getting the full flavor of the Nutmeg State news when I noticed in the upper left-hand corner a button entitled “Sections,” […]

TikTok

The reason you go on TikTok is to get the pulse of the nation, to be informed of what people think. This is where the oldster/mainstream media/anti-technology perspective gets it wrong. If you’re not on your phone consistently, if you’re not surfing TikTok, you don’t know what the majority of the public is thinking, and […]

One Battle After Another

And Hollywood wonders why this was a box office disappointment? There have been reams of pages utilizing “One Battle After Another” as an illustration of a failure of the audience, that people just won’t come out to see a great movie. Having now watched it on HBO… I was hipped by Harold that it was […]