The Power of the Dog I’m hooked on this book. And you could be too, maybe. It’s not the kind of thing I read, the “Baltimore Sun” called it a “thriller,” and I don’t read genre books, no mysteries, nothing plot driven, I’m looking for a volume to touch my soul, but I started reading […]

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life I feel like life passed me by. That I squandered my chance and I’m a loser in the new economy. You know, the STEM world, run by entrepreneurs. Money is everything and I ain’t got none. What did I do, where did I go wrong? Did I break the cardinal […]

The film business is fighting Sean Parker’s Screening Room. The book business is fighting Amazon’s Kindle. And the music business is sitting in the present, the most up-to-date media vertical extant. And yet people still complain. Do you want to pay $150 for a device that would allow you to stream first run films for […]

So what have we learned? That talent is the fuel, but rarely the engine. And it’s harder to build an engine than find new talent. So if we go back two decades, we find three of the highest profile players in Hollywood teaming up to create a new studio, a veritable United Artists, making all […]