Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Corporations Push Back Against Voting Laws

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]

Credibility/Authenticity

Speak from the heart, not the head. Go with what feels right. The more you think about it, the greater the chance you’re sacrificing your authenticity. You can play to the audience or yourself. The audience changes, you don’t. Either draw people to you for who you truly are, a unique individual, or get left […]

No One Is Interested

There’s a fiction that everybody cares, they do not. That’s what sank the Grammys. Sure, they went young, but the belief that all young people care about these acts is plain wrong. Not that you’d expect an organization influenced by the major labels to understand that. The ratings for everything are falling. Not only awards […]

Reinventing The Oscars

1. Include TV. Television is no longer the poor stepsister to movies. The line between TV and film is fluid. Those both in front and behind the camera work in both paradigms. Forget the charter, forget the past, you either disrupt yourself or you get disrupted. Next year, TV too! 2. Story, story, STORY! Traditional […]