First we had the Swifties, convinced via Taylor’s endless Easter eggs that she was going to play the Super Bowl. You don’t need to be too sophisticated to know that she’s off-cycle, and that would never happen. To start from nothing, create a whole new show, rehearse it…exactly why? She’s got nothing to promote! And […]

FX/Hulu trailer: I was mesmerized for about half an hour, and then… We’d been unable to find a satisfying series. Well, we watched “The Empress,” which is an interesting Netflix show about the Habsburg dynasty and the magical Empress Elisabeth married to the young Emperor Franz… I was trying to remember some of the facts […]

“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: https://www.pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records/ I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I met him, in a crowd at the Troubadour, Seymour Stein talked about Syd Nathan. And seemingly every time […]

You don’t poke the bear. Let’s say you’re called into the principal’s office. And this puffed-up authority figure starts coming down on you, reciting your so-called offenses… You hang your head and listen. You stay quiet. You certainly don’t bark back, because of the CONSEQUENCES! The principal has the power and you don’t. You will […]