Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


New York City

Just like I pictured it. Does anybody get Stevie Wonder references anymore? I just saw a play, so whacked, that asked the same question about Steely Dan. The two characters were Becker and Fagen fanatics, they wondered if we knew the lyrics, anything beyond the band’s William S. Burroughs inspired name and song titles. Things […]

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 […]