Last night Bill Maher said the average price of a Taylor Swift ticket was over $4000. Really. My favorite story on this came from Tony Wilson. His first job out of Oxbridge was in a television news department. On a Saturday night he collected the European football scores and the newsreader got them wrong. Tony […]

I started reading the new Pynchon book. It got good reviews and I love him in principle, he’s disconnected, he’s a writer, he doesn’t need the penumbra, the media profile. Then again, I bought “Gravity’s Rainbow” and never made much headway, never mind “The Crying of Lot 49.” So I’d just finished this book “The […]

Kenny Chesney has a new autobiography, “Heart Life Music.” Kenny is open, honest and forthright…not fake humble or self-deprecating, he owns his hard work and success. I loved talking to him and you’ll love listening to him! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kenny-chesney/id1316200737?i=1000735543040 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/99f43d7e-077a-4af5-aa4c-7f7f04fdf1f1/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-kenny-chesney

The story for me is how out of touch the press is. The right said Trump had a mandate. The left said the party had to run to the center. And everybody in the pundit class, everybody in D.C., seemed to have no understanding of the mind-set of the people. And the question arises, if […]