So I’m sitting in the waiting room at the House Ear Clinic reading "Men’s Journal" and I come across a BlackBerry ad featuring Terry McBride. A few months back, I saw one featuring John Mayer. Why do we hate John Mayer? Is it the overemoting? Or the ridiculous tattoos? Or the Jessica Simpson fixation? Oh, […]

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And where was the concomitant record industry investment in Napster? Oh yeah, that’s right, Thomas Middelhoff, head of Bertelsmann, invested in the service, saw it as the industry’s future, and his record company brethren SUED HIM FOR AIDING AND ABETTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Where is the investment in Limewire? Where is the investment in anywhere the […]

My inbox is crammed with e-mails telling me how fucking slow the Radiohead site is running. Shades of the U2/fan club/ticketing debacle? One thing I never forgot is a quote from Bob Reitman, who used to be GM at A&M. He looked me in the eye and asked, "Are you a writer or a publisher?" […]