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The AirPods, The Keys, & The Elderly

With a nail-biter of an election coming up, I thought I’d share a few anecdotes that might offer a little comic relief. Quite frankly, my favorite person to laugh at is myself … my mistakes, my certainty, the vehemence with which I defend convictions I may later reconsider. Here goes …

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Deciphering The Spotify Spin

Spotify professes to be our friend — a champion of the creator — the birther of the “Spotify Secret Genius” — a manufactured honor conceived to pander to our egos and a title that is now so laughably transparent. For a service that preaches the value of music and the people who create it, they sure are trying pretty hard to f*ck us over…as covertly as possible.

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F-F-F-Fifty???

I work with people who are a decade younger than I and others who are a decade older. Some have innocence and some have wisdom. Sometimes the innocence does not belong to the younger writer or the wisdom to the older.

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Confessions.