Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


They’re Eating The Pets!

This is forever. You can’t manufacture virality. Remember “Gangnam Style”? People weren’t even interested in the follow-up video. Quick, name it! (It’s entitled “Gentleman,” and if you know that you’re entitled to automatic qualification for the next hobby horse nationals. Meanwhile, “Gentleman” does have 1.6 billion views on YouTube, but that does not mean its […]

Fallon Loses A Night

“NBC Pulls Back ‘Tonight Show’ to Four Nights Per Week”: https://t.ly/mEKsD Is this more about content or format? There is no appointment viewing, everything is on demand. And edge sells. But baby boomers inured to the old ways control media and they’d like you to believe otherwise. Fallon loses on both counts, content and format. […]

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 […]