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Amanda Palmer Kickstarter Event

You’re just not willing to work that hard. So I sauntered up to the Pop Tart Gallery after parking my car on a side street convinced when I returned it would be minus the radio. You see this is not what we call a good neighborhood. 6th Street east of Vermont. Hell, I think if […]

Slow

Have you seen the Mary Meeker slides? She showed them at last week’s D Conference. But a tech entrepreneur friend of mine tweeted about them today, a week later. Or how about David Lowery’s screed about the new boss being worse than the old boss? That was posted on April 15th, but almost ever day […]

Bits & Bytes

Van Halen 2 for 1 They overpriced the tickets and released a good new album no one heard. You get one reunion tour, after that, you’re starting all over. Tickets have to be cheap and you’ve got to convince people to listen to your new music. Otherwise you’re just a has-been trying to lap up […]

The Beer Market

We promised we’d hear the band. Which is how we, the assembled multitude, myself, the AEG guys and Ross and Laurietta, Singapore concert promoters, found ourselves in the Beer Market. There’s no litter in Singapore. I think there’s a fine for that. Or a re-education camp. They actually have signs boasting about this. So, a […]