Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Aella

“America’s Sex Recession”  Apple: https://apple.co/3A6nDMH Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3xoqxuq First I listened to the Daily.  Turns out that when you’re vaccinated few antibodies populate your nose, and it’s from your proboscis that most Covid droplets emanate. Therefore, if you get a breakthrough infection, you’re just as contagious as the unvaccinated. So you may not have a bad […]

Data

Maybe the pendulum has swung too far. Data is ruining baseball. Turns out it’s best to only let starting pitchers go five or six innings. And have fielders adjust position based on the batter’s entire history of plate appearances. And since the pitchers are speeding the ball at 100 MPH consistently, the batters are employing […]

1971-Episode One

https://bit.ly/3oE5r8M I’ve been thinking I was born at the wrong time. Now I’m not so sure. On one hand I was born at exactly the right time, I was 10 when the Beatles broke, I was there for the British Invasion, I saw the whole movie, many of my contemporaries were not, if you were […]

Rock Me On The Water

“Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics”: https://amzn.to/3fpmpDt At first I loved this book. Then it depressed me. Ronald Brownstein posits that 1974 was the apotheosis in entertainment and it all emanated from Los Angeles. This is patently untrue. I hate when writers come up […]