Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Overrated/Underrated-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday September 6th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

The Attention Game

You’ve got to decide which track you’re on, whether you truly have a mass cause or something that is inherently narrow and promote accordingly. In entertainment nothing is for everyone. We got the last hurrah of the power of overwhelming publicity with Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, which all media believed was a phenomenon and convinced […]

Fandom

At what point did you give up your fandom for a band…if ever? And what made you become a fan of the band to begin with? Now a band needs a lead singer, a front person, usually a man but it can also be a woman. Look, Linkin Park is now fronted by a woman. […]

Income Inequality Manifested

1 I don’t understand the hatred of Spotify. The constant denigration of its payment system and the animus directed at Daniel Ek. Then I read this article in today’s “New York Times”:  “How Liberalism Went to Die on the Texas-Arkansas Border” Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/liberalism-texarkana-economy-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.Q46T.dtVsEBHA75e2&smid=url-share You need to read this article, but you also need to […]