Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Ryan Lochte

These people are athletes, not role models, but since NBC has to sell advertising, the media gets on the bandwagon and venerates these people so out of touch with reality, having pursued their sport doggedly for their entire lives, we’re led to believe they’re better than us. But they’re not. Come on, who doesn’t expect […]

Taylor/Kanye/Kim Brouhaha

What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where the dust-up eclipses the song? People don’t have time to check out a track. That’s the dirty little secret the music industry doesn’t want to admit, that so many have tuned out new music because it’s overwhelming, and the plethora of playlists isn’t helping. […]

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 […]