Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Taylor Swift

Surfing the new paradigm or tone-deaf? I’m not sure. Bernie Sanders captures the youth vote by appealing to millennials’ lack of opportunity, their mountains of college debt in a land of income inequality. The modern economy losers voted for Brexit and Trump won the nomination by appealing to those left out. Yet Twizzle Stick is […]

Beautycon LA

They screamed every time Tana Mongeau spoke. Do you know who that is? I don’t either. The woman who runs Beautycon is a force of nature. I met Moj Mahdara at the Atom Factory, Troy Carter’s joint, it’s always the same people, investing in the new and different which you’d expect to be run by […]

The Overwhelming Decade

There’s just too much of EVERYTHING! We’ve got the world at our fingertips, yet we know less than ever before, lack control not only of our government and society, but our personal lives too. We have fear of missing out, but we’re not sure what’s worth doing. The old admire the young and the young […]

Steph Curry

This is what we need in music. I swore off the NBA. It was an unmitigated time suck, TV crack, once you stated watching the playoffs you couldn’t tune out. I spent months in the nineties watching Michael Jordan, after wasting way too much time viewing the shenanigans of Magic and Bird before that. But […]