May 21st, 2013

Maron/Lefsetz

From: Marc MaronSubject: Hey, heads up Bob- Again, I am glad you are digging the show.

Gallagher On WTF

WTF – Episode 145 – Gallagher Have you got an hour? Nobody has an hour, not even prepubescents scheduled to the max by parents who believe if they don’t get into an Ivy League school their lives will be ruined.

Dreese On Retail

“So (the big music chain’s strategy was) not about trying to excite the customer. To extract value from the labels seemed to be the pursuit

Siri

If Apple can’t make it overnight, why do you think you can? Sure, millions of iPhone 4S’s have been sold

The Descendants

Beau Bridges was so good in this movie! I hate the holidays.

Rap’s hard sell-Blame It On The Alcohol

Pitbull, ‘Diddy’ and other rappers step up alcohol endorsements I’m running out to the movies, but I was just eating some breakfast and reading the newspaper and I read a story so intriguing and horrifying I just had to alert you. Maybe I’m getting old.

The Woody Allen Documentary

I still can’t get over the Soon-Yi thing, but people always tell me to separate the man from the art, and “Annie Hall” could be my favorite movie ever, so… 1. There was a fascinating story in Sunday’s “New York Times” quarreling with Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours theory (which was originated by a college professor in

Tablets

This story has been underreported. Just like the iPod killed the Walkman, tablets are going to devastate PCs, it’s just that most people don’t know it yet. The iPod is a good analogy

Barry’s Book

Barry Fey It’s not well-written, but you can’t put it down. The public did not kill the music business

When Bad Leads To Good

I slipped on a curb. I was just walking, from the movie to the car, and I felt a twist in my knee and a pain right behind it and the first thing I thought was “There goes my ski season!” I’m paranoid that way.