Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Brand New Day

“You can turn the clock to zero honey I’ll sell the stock, we’ll spend all the money We’re starting up a brand new day” Playlist: https://spoti.fi/2WWUP7W 1 Sting’s career was in the doldrums. After stunning the populace with the double album “…Nothing Like the Sun,” with not only the classics “Be Still My Beating Heart,” […]

Hilaria Baldwin

Alec Baldwin finally got his comeuppance. For years Alec has been telling us he’s better than us, that he’s unjustly persecuted, that he knows better, now we know that that’s all B.S. Do I expect you to care about the Hilaria kerfuffle? OF COURSE NOT! But there are a lot of lessons to be learned […]

Homeland Elegies

https://amzn.to/3n46JHX 1 This is the best book of the year. But it’s not that easy to read. Readability. It’s the number one criterion for a good book. Oftentimes that which is lauded is all about style, plot is secondary, it’s like the self-congratulatory publishing industry, and the graduates of the writing factories, can only anoint […]

More Disco Demolitiion Night

I was the format designer and consultant at THE LOOP back in the Disco Demolition era. Race or Homophobia was never even remotely discussed as a component of the promotion. It was all about the Midwest 16-34 Men that the station targeted and their disdain for the disco movement. The factors that DID play into it were […]