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YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT RICK RUBIN, your feelings about Paul McCartney yet again recounting his and one-time partner John Lennon’s songwriting deeds is likely to affect your enthusiasm for the six part series, McCartney 3,2,1 available…
1.AMONG THE THUGS, 2021, ENGLAND I have not finished reading Bill Buford’s dazzling piece of New Journalism, Among the Thugs(1990), a soul-churning account of the American writer embedding himself among clans(or KKKlans, more accurately) of…
STRAIGHT OUTTA NOWHERE: SCOOBY DOO MEETS COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG(2021) TRAILER The crossover a few people might have been asking for. Or not. The franchise That Will Not Die meets a relatively youthful staple of…
Continue Reading “10 THOUGHTS FOR A TUESDAY….”(JULY 6, 2021)
GWEN BERRY, “American” track and field athlete. Say what you want about Colin Kaepernick he never behaved like this. Her display on the podium was as embarrassing and disgraceful a moment as any I…
1.LORDE, “SOLAR POWER” A “JAILBAIT” KATE BUSH was how I described/dismissed Lorde when she first surfaced. At [[#]] years old, preternaturally beautiful with a mane of black glossamar Pre-Raphaelite hair and pale skin, and from…
I’VE RAVED ABOUT THE continuing series Dark Side of the Ring on at least two occasions. Now make it a third. “In the Shadow Of Grizzly Smith” (s03,e06) might be the finest episode I…
MY MIDLIFE CRISIS INCLUDES HAVING A SUDDEN OBSESSION WITH EUROPEAN “FOOTBALL.” MAY GOD have mercy on us all. During this last week I have been far more focused upon the official winding down of…
Continue Reading TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TWO MAJOR 2021 EURO FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
I HAD/HAVE NO PLANS TO WATCH the Friends reunion/reboot or whatever the hell it is. On principle I am against nearly all reunion shows/reboots/remakes/remodels. Each one of these projects appears to reek of the desperation,…
OF COURSE THERE WOULD BE a third act. Dark Side of the Ring had been a certified two-time hit and a well-deserved one. Though the pro wrestling expose has long been a staple…
HBO CAN’T MAKE IT EASY ON any of us, can they? Not for Game of Thrones fans, especially since the muddled disaster of Season 8. Even before those six episodes enraged the fan base…