The Watchmaker’s Four
I stopped wearing a watch over a decade ago when I got my first iPhone. I always considered watches a single-use utility, not jewelry (which I don’t wear, either), so they outlived their usefulness to me once I had a multiple-use device that provided the same...
Podcast Alert
Here’s the first of two Reel Spoilers podcasts I did for this week with Tom, Kevin, and Joe. Click here to download, listen, and note how old Tom and I are just by our TV...
Three Jeopardy Goats Tough
As longtime fans of “Jeopardy!”, Martha and I are really enjoying the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) tournament, which is getting big ratings in primetime on ABC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, each episode has drawn more viewers than: the first four...
Still Special Forty Years Later
This weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the US release of the Pretenders’ first album. It had come out in the UK two months earlier, and its first single, “Brass In Pocket,” had risen to number one there, but it wasn’t making any inroads in...