Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Tilt

“This can be one cause of every poker player’s worst fear: ’tilt,’ the phenomenon where your perception of what’s happening at the table has gone completely askew and you’re making blunder after blunder. Poker players tend to think of tilt as an emotional state—anger after a bad beat, boredom after a slow run of cards, […]

Relatability

Instagram: https://t.ly/qkXIo Facebook: https://t.ly/YJunO YouTube: https://t.ly/vUlBg I just saw this video today. But it was launched twelve days ago on Kamala Harris’s YouTube channel. But it’s also on Facebook and Stereogum and “Billboard”… But it was only when Jake texted this to me that I found out about it. Today your work is a time […]

Mailbag

Re: DJ Cassidy When Cassidy was in high school , I was at his Dad’s house (Jon Podell), at the time a great booking agent (CSNY) and many other huge artists. Jon sent me in to  try and tell Cassidy to put aside his passion to be a DJ and stay in school. Cassidy told […]

Optimism

Has Kamala Harris’s campaign ushered in a new era of optimism? Was the pent-up demand already there, just waiting to be released? And was Taylor Swift’s Eras tour just a harbinger of a new era? And the nearly overnight success of Chappell Roan indicative of this newfound optimism? Let’s be clear, there’s been a lot […]