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“Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu”: https://bit.ly/488Y0yH   Literally. This book made me feel inadequate, like I hadn’t lived life to the fullest. Thank god I still have some time left, but I could never catch up. Now I know Tom Freston. I even know the outline of most of these stories, a bit of […]

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 […]