I’ve been reading this book about the corporate ski industry entitled "Downhill Slide".  It delineates how consolidation of the ski industry has not only ruined communities but has contributed to the death of the sport.  People used to go to the mountains for a rural experience, now the ski towns are urbanized, with all the […]

Fire Neil Portnow. We’re at an historic point in the music business.  The decline of the power of the major labels.  Only two albums went double platinum last year and the four remaining majors look more like Lehman Brothers than Apple.  They’ve mismanaged while extracting untold profits and sky-high salaries, bitching all the while that […]

Diane Warren Teri Garr says she judges someone’s intelligence by whether they get the jokes.  I judge people’s intelligence by whether they remember meeting me. I’m not talking about a handshake, but a conversation.  If we spoke for fifteen minutes, how can you not remember me?  I’ve introduced myself over and over to the same […]

Only seem to work at Wal-Mart. You can rail on and on about the economy, but if that were a factor, how come the AC/DC album sold 90,000 to Guns N’ Roses 257,000?  Even though "Black Ice" has already been in the marketplace for six weeks?  As for Christina Aguilera, last week, her second, she […]