Archive for the 'The Media' Category


How We Got Here

Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now “Get Together” The Youngbloods Break records at Louis, ate breakfast at Gucci My girl a superstar from a home movie “Clique” Kanye West Trump could win. The left-leaning mainstream press, except for Fox News, of course, is […]

The CMA Awards

And the winner was… STURGILL SIMPSON! Who excoriated Nashville and the ACM and CMA for embracing Merle Haggard posthumously when they pushed him aside during his lifetime. Sturgill Simpson is an outsider. And people love him for it. Whenever I write about country music I hear his name most, my inbox overflows, he’s got rabid […]

Tronc/Gannett

Sometimes you’ve got to sell. You may not think this applies to you, two fading news enterprises fighting for survival, but there are self-satisfied owners across all avenues of business, those so caught up in their vision and their love of the company that they can’t see the forest for the trees, they can’t see […]

“Surf City-The Jan & Dean Story”

Surf City: The Jan and Dean Story This is strangely readable. Writing is an art, a talent that most people don’t possess. After finishing this, I tried to crack the new Brian Wilson book, it was unfathomable, short sentences as if you were in the room and the man himself was free-associating. That’s Brian, but […]