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After hearing a promo for it on This American Life‘s podcast, I started listening to Sound Opinions, a syndicated radio program and podcast from Chicago Public Radio, self-described as “the world’s only rock n roll radio talk show”, hosted by Chicago newspaper music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot. It’s awesome. They do a great [...]

When Billboard runs a cover like that, it’s hard to keep the company Trapped in the Closet like R. Kelly. The proper coming out blog post is located on Topspin’s new site. Order your own issue of Billboard here. A couple more pictures from the shoot here, and a couple snaps from the unused bowl [...]

I’ve gotten sappy about my daughter Zoe plenty of times on this blog. But not today. Today I’m just proud. Zoe was homeschooled grades 5-7. In 8th grade she went back to public school and took home every award. She chose Santa Monica High for high school (private school Marlboro was the other option). She [...]

Just back from checking out Adam Yauch‘s new movie, Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot, which follows eight high school basketball players into the “Elite 24″ all-star game in Harlem’s Rucker Park. Now anyone that knows me knows I’m not a fan of either movies or basketball, but I’m here to admit this is a damn [...]

Dave Allen, former member of Gang Of Four and current Director Insights and Digital Media at Nemo Design contributed a great stream of consciousness essay on social media, blogs, and advertising to Nemo’s corp blog, Social Cache. Its only crime is that it combines many ideas into one post. Namely: 1) Social networking is not [...]