You might not think so. It might seem counter-intuitive. But it’s not wrong. Andrew Earles in 2016: Band names/artistic monikers are so, so, so important, people. Anyone who subscribes to bullshittery such as “It’s only a name” or “It’s unfair to judge a band/artist on name alone” needs to call 911 so the EMTs can… Read More Bad Band Names Ruin Music
Bill Corbett of MST3K fame has a tweet that illustrates something I have come to find baffling (Incidentally, the tweet that follows this thread is pretty funny). What’s a movie you’ve never seen that seems to make people ANGRY when they hear you haven’t seen it? If any? Me: The Shawshank Redemption sorry in advance!… Read More Getting Angry About Movies Other People Haven’t Seen
Full Disclosure: This article on Medium is by the official account of Gab, the free-speech Social Network that grew up in the aftermath of the first round of Twitter going after conservatives. So, they’re not exactly a neutral observer, and if you don’t care about free-speech for people you don’t like, then you might find… Read More How to Remove Facebook From Your Life
I encountered this a month ago, when it was written, and I’ve been meaning to blog about it, but honestly, just read the whole thing. https://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble I will add some of my own thoughts in a later post.
Sony Music is expanding it’s catalog label, Legacy, according to Variety: According to BuzzAngle’s 2017 year-end report, a whopping 51% of songs consumed are from “deep catalog” (music three or more years old), with an additional 12.5% coming from “catalog” (18 months to three years old). Which means that for all the discovery opportunities that a virtually… Read More Old Music is New Again
I will miss Barnes & Noble when they’re gone. I have no news of their imminent demise, mind. Just an intuition which recent reports have intensified. Ah well. This is why one builds a library.
Our first experience of belonging (or not, for some) is of a family. And even in dysfunctional families, the parental authority, if it’s worth anything enforces the “he/she is weird, but he/she is ours.” In school, also, for the truly odd kid, the teacher and the supervising assistant, or whatever, are the ones who intervene… Read More Why Oddballs Like Authoritarianism – And Why They Shouldn’t
Good post by Christian Mihai. The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. – Lorraine Hansberry Most people loathe solitude. Silence. The empty room. Nothing but their minds for company… But, to paraphrase John Steinbeck, all great and precious things are built in… Read More The War for Art is Fought Within You
At least, that’s the practical upshot of this otherwise jargon-free article about using Facebook to increase your awareness. Useful in that it advocates not trying to make Facebook into something it isn’t. Facebook is an absolutely amazing platform to build and grow your business. What’s even better than that? It’s absolutely free to use! The… Read More One Must Engage to Get “Engagement”
The good news is, I didn’t pay for it. Here’s a mostly-fun article by Dwight Garner, about the joy of having enemies: This is a column, however, about that old-fashioned word—enemies. Today we more often speak of “rivals” or “competitors.” Richard Nixon would have been vastly duller had he compiled a rivals list instead of an… Read More I Picked Up a Copy of Esquire and Now I Regret It.
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