Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Sophie Buddle At Departure

I discovered her on social media. I can’t tell you whether it was TikTok or Instagram Reels…I think it was the latter, although you have to know the two services are different. Instagram Reels repeats videos, TikTok does not. It all comes down to the algorithm, that’s TikTok’s special sauce. And if you’re looking for […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: John Boylan On Little River Band Hey Bob, First of all, I love John Boylan. And I owe my career as a record producer to the coincidental fact that the REO album, You can tune a Piano, but you can’t Tuna fish, got horribly behind schedule, John was committed to produce Little River […]

Post Covid

I thought it was only me. Having immune issues, I was locked up longer than most. And honestly, it took me a full year to recover. To not be anxious out and about. To decide to go out and about. And I know a lot of people who died. I found this was uncommon. Maybe […]

Culture

Don’t expect a plethora of protest songs to show up. I was just reading about the Kennedy Center honoring of Conan O’Brien, who got the Mark Twain Prize over the weekend. You’ll end up seeing it on Netflix, because that’s where comedy now lives, HBO squandered its lead, had its eye off the ball, the […]