Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


You Can’t Reach Everybody

And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]

Swift?

From: Gerard Kinzelmann Subject: Taylor and Rolling Stone article WTF not a puff piece but a hurricane. I laughed out  loud at some sentences. Tayor’s publicists probably wrote this. How far RS https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-taylor-swift-won-commentary-1235351833/ _________________________________ That article is behind a paywall. Not that the news that Taylor Swift has reacquired her catalog of recordings is hidden, I saw […]

TikTok Tips

HAVE A PERSONALITY Bland doesn’t work on TikTok, edge does. Doesn’t matter whether you’re likable or not, but whether you’re interesting. DON’T BE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK You connect most when you’re true to yourself. You’re selling yourself, you’re in the business of yourself.  IGNORE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK Haters come with the territory. If you […]

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 […]