That Big Concert Fifty Years Ago

I wasn’t there. If you want, you can read about why I wasn’t there: 76 Million Sociopaths Outed (HuffPo) There are so many articles/blog posts floating around commemorating/condemning the event that I’ve OD’d. One more could do me in. This could be the one. Advertising. I’ve written about how dumb it is to heavy-handedly invoke ‘60s ... Read more

I wasn’t there. If you want, you can read about why I wasn’t there:

76 Million Sociopaths Outed (HuffPo)

There are so many articles/blog posts floating around commemorating/condemning the event that I’ve OD’d. One more could do me in. This could be the one.

Advertising. I’ve written about how dumb it is to heavy-handedly invoke ‘60s stuff to reach Baby Boomers:

03 OCTOBER 2005

Invoking “The Sixties”: Fidelity Financial vs. Ameriprise

Two major financial planning companies, Fidelity Investments and Ameriprise, are all agog over Baby Boomers.

There are a dozen more subsequent posts, but I’ll spare you.

Barry Robertson has a take on it all (and he’s even more fed up than yours truly):

https://15thnation.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/wodstock-1969-life.png50 Years of Woodshtick
For the next week or so, prepare to endure the 50th anniversary of Woodshtick – the endgame of five long decades of punditry and pontification over a messy 1969 mudfest in upstate New York that, supposedly, defines the Baby Boom generation.

Now I’m off to a walk-in clinic to see if they have any sort of antidote for Nostalgia Overdose.

Rare Beauty’s “anonymous insider” spills the...

Rare Beauty’s “anonymous insider” spills the...

I’ve recently been using Substack to find new music to listen to. That’s probably not quite what its founders had in mind, but it has a ton of newsletters written by people who just really love music. It’s less professional music criticism and more “hey, this album was great, give it a listen.”

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No News News & Fake News

No News News & Fake News

I’m not linking to any more dumb articles. Or fake news. Fake news to me can be broken up into two categories: News that’s half-fake and half-not fake. There might be some good advice in an article, but if it also has a lot of bad advice – then no link. News that’s fobbed off

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