Wednesday, December 30, 2015

2015: Annus Horribilis

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As 2015 draws to a close and people post their self-congratulatory years in review on Facebook (Facebook helpfully offers to do this for y...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Tony Bramwell: The Fifth Beatle?

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In the pantheon of my cultural heroes, no person or group is greater than the Beatles. To the child that I was in the ’60s, they didn’t eve...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Every Day I Write the Book

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I’m not as big an Elvis Costello fan as I thought I was. Mind you, I’ve always had tremendous respect for Elvis Costello as a songwriter....
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Shit Just Got Real: The Reality of Today’s Economy

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  Today I applied for food stamps. Shit just got real, as the kids say. On the plus side, the food stamp process has gotten a lot better ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Old Navy is Shit Crazy

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If Gap is crap 1 , then Old Navy is shit crazy. And by that I don’t mean that they’ve lost their marbles (although that’s also entirely pos...
Monday, November 30, 2015

A Love-Hate Relationship: Homeland vs. The Affair, Part 2

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The Affair has become the show I love to hate: I’m just hate-watching it now. This show should have just lasted one season and called it...
Friday, November 20, 2015

While You Were Sleeping

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While everyone has been preoccupied with the possibility of a terrorist attack in New York (although the government says there’s no evidenc...