Monthly Archives: January 2021

Back in the mid-aughts, before there was Spotify, I was in a “tape club.” There were ten people in the group and each month, one member would burn a mixed CD and mail a copy out to each person, that way you got a new CD of music each month. (FWIW, my mix was “SongsContinue reading “Gamed Stock”

Two months after they launched, next-gen consoles are still almost impossible to get. Unless you are a ‘bot or some sentient script code, your middle-aged fingers can not click fast enough to get either an Xbox Series X or the PlayStation 5 today. Or yesterday, when I actually tried to procure one. News hit thatContinue reading “X’d Out”

Back in 1998 Madonna found her Ray of Light, Air went on a Moon Safari, and Massive Attack does whatever one does in a Mezzanine. I was a publicist for a videogame company called Purple Moon, whose hook was that it made videogames for girls ages 8 – 14. The company was founded and runContinue reading “Girl Talk”