In the last two days I’ve been tone policed for being unkind, uncool, and tribal. Mind you, the single person doing the tone policing had nothing to say about what I signified. […]
Where is my tribe?
When a company cuts jobs, it shouldn’t spin that reality with corporate bullshit
The owner of the grandparent of weekly news magazines, Time, has decided to shed 300 jobs through layoffs and buyouts to reduce its costs. A media corporation whacking jobs to save money? […]
Dear Prudence: John’s beautiful dreamer…
The song represents an aspect of Beatle songwriting that emerged on the White Album: the album is filled with songs that offer carefully observed portraits of characters real and imagined along with […]
Random thoughts about the record album – part 5: they want their MTV
Video killed more than just the radio star. “It made the record industry a one-trick pony. It became only about a three-minute single and a visual image, and if you didn’t have […]
A daring young man … and a documentary dependent on his survival
Alex Honnold is a remarkable young man. He may be the foremost rock climber in generations. That his most recent feat was done entirely ropeless — meaning he’d die if he fell […]
The Beatles’ “I’ll Be Back”: mood is everything
Sometimes a song simply resonates with some inner mood that is part of our existential selves. “I’ll Be Back” is that kind of song for me. “A nice tune, though the middle […]
Bill Maher: it’s not the words he used, it’s how he used them
Our fear of the “N-word” only makes it stronger, but Maher used it for a cheap laugh. This is not acceptable and he knows it. Bill Maher stepped in it on his […]
Kathy Griffin badly miscalculated. Or did she? Enquiring minds want to know…
What did Griffin think was going to happen? Kathy seems to have gone Fukushima on us. She lost her CNN gig and an endorsement deal for some kind of potty product (that […]
Eleanor Rigby: the real and the imagined…
It would be enlightening to hear McCartney explain how he came to create such an effecting portrait of loneliness and existential pain. “I thought, I swear, that I made up the name […]
Tiger kills zookeeper because … the tiger had a set of keys?
Information wants to be free. Hamerton Zoo Park officials really fucked up the public statement. You probably noted the story about the zookeeper killed by a tiger in England the other day. This […]
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