Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Kenny Chesney Not On Spotify

Hasn’t he got enough money? Then again, maybe he’s not only exclusive to Apple, maybe you can hear his new album “Cosmic Hallelujah” via Amazon, but I doubt it and researching it is too hard, these acts don’t realize Apple and Amazon’s streaming services are narrow silos whose contents are invisible to those who do […]

The Death Of Vine

The Internet is about fads. Whether it be MySpace, Turntable.fm or Vine, they’re hot for a while and then people move on, they’re the movies of the twenty first century. Remember when we went to the flicks to be part of the culture? So when we went to parties we’d have something to talk about? […]

Benjy’s Late

Nobody plans to fail. But they fail to plan. That’s what the dental hygienist told me today. After telling me she moved to a new duplex in South Central L.A., an hour away. One day she decided to take the freeway, despite Waze’s incantations, but then it took an hour and a half. But she […]

Garth Brooks/Amazon

He needs a hit. This is what happens when you put commerce in front of career, when you’re too inured to the old ways, when you try to have one foot in the old world and one foot in the new. You fail. Oldsters love Garth. He tours at low ticket prices to satisfied fans. […]