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Paying Attention: David Letterman–the thinking man’s late night talk show host–announced his retirement last week. It has reverberated throughout the media world in almost every corner of the globe because Letterman is one of the greats and in terms of the Emmy’s he’s collected over the years, certainly the most creative person to ever fill …
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Paying Attention: It’s no secret that on this site, we have a viewpoint on what’s going on with TV news–especially CNN–regarding the Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370 disaster/catastrophe/mystery. We covered that particular topic just about 10 days ago, in the post “The Good News About Bad News”. Now, the big hitters have jumped in, including …
Paying Attention: No doubt, we know precisely where the current “breaking news” /”breaking alert” epidemic started: September 11th, 2001. On that day, every news channel and every broadcast station was bombarded with news, news feeds, photos, videos, interviews, theories, conflicting reports about the Twin Towers attack. So much information was coming in so fast and …
Reprise: Over a year ago, we published an article on the “black box” that contains flight data on airlines and the data it would contain. The article was produced in response to the massive coverage around the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flt.370. One year later, that plane is still missing, and, tragically, the …
The Hunt For New Music: New music is where you find it. Sometimes it’s a new version of something you’ve heard and loved from the past. Sometimes it’s totally new– out of your current listening universe (like Bachata, which we’ll get to later ). It’s the background song you can’t get out of your mind …
Press Clippings: One thing about the skiing world: if the guys can do it, the girls can do it. That means downhill-for-downhill, parallel snowboard GS-for-parallel snowboard GS, GS-for-GS, Slalom-for-Slalom and, yes, Ski Cross-for-ski-cross. Ski Cross is, admittedly, widely entertaining and more-than-moderately addictive. So there’s women’s ski cross as well as men’s. Here’s a short video …
“When you got a headache Headache powder soothes the pain Go right back to sleep And you feel all right again When you got a backache A little rubbin’ ‘ll see you through When you got a heartache There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can …
Paying Attention: With the Superbowl just hours away and the TV packed with lots of great old bits and remembrances of football players great and no-so-great, it seemed like an appropriate time to come up with an All Star team of my own. Didn’t want to base it on stats or playoff game performances, …
THE LE MANS LINEUP FOR 207 Embed from Getty Images The 24 Hours of Le Mans is off and running. The 2017 race is the 94rd anniversary of the famed historic endurance race, one of the top three automobile events in the world (Grand Prix of Monaco, Indy 500, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans), justifiably …
“…You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes you just might find You get what you need..”