Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Why Isn’t Fran Lebowitz A Bigger Star?

Is it because she’s a woman? Because she’s gay? Because she’s a New Yorker? Because she doesn’t have a manager? Because she is an intellectual? She KILLS every time she’s on TV, she has a rapier wit and a confidence nonpareil, aren’t those the elements of stardom? Maybe she missed her chance. She was hyped […]

TheFatRat

Luke is eight. I love talking to the little kids. They answer you honestly, they miss the nuance, they’re fountains of information presented unfiltered and when Luke told me he was listening to TheFatRat I had no idea what he was talking about. He immediately told me he’d found him on his favorite YouTube channel, […]

Travis Kalanick

Am I the only person who believes he shouldn’t have been fired? Now Travis is a prick. Unfriendly and self-serving. Granted, my interactions with him have been limited to two panels, but he exuded a self-righteousness and pomposity that were undeniable. But he built Uber out of whole cloth. Read Brad Stone’s “The Upstarts.” Uber […]

We Don’t Care

We’re operating like it’s the twentieth century in a twentieth first century world. The media industrial complex believes if it just beats us over the head hard enough, keeps putting faces in front of us, that we will pay attention and care. But that don’t play in an on demand world where we have access […]