Society

Benny was a really bad sport. Benny had a front porch that smelled of onions that his mother was storing for some inexplicable purpose. And his father toyed with taxidermy on the side and always had decaying animal parts in the garage. Nice place to visit, huh? Oh, and if you felt hot in the […]

The Live 8 and Post Katrina phenomenons were wonderful displays of Hollywoodism. Take Brad Pitt, for example. This ageless wonder stands on a stage and tells us why it would be a good idea to donate our money to a cause. Why don’t he and his Beverly Hills pals donate their next movie paycheck entirely […]

Every damned gym class circa 6th grade played kickball at some point. And every damned gym class had the kid who refused to give the ball a real kick and instead half stepped up to the ball and bunted.
The bunt was really a tap with the side of the foot and the ball would […]

We’re sure each and every one of you have their own list of musicians who would qualify for this list. Here’s our list of two top offenders to date:
Ashlee Simpson - The crazy ho “cries” after the Super Bowl booing, and is relegated to blaming her band and formulating some preposterous reasons why she […]

This column is dedicated to those thuggish gangstas who relocate from inner city schools to “country” schools much like mine in years past. “What up, yo!” Okay, some of these kids have roots in the city. But, we’re not going to go as far as to grant them total street cred since many are from […]

Slyck is currently running an interview with a college girl who settled with the RIAA to avoid bigger damages from fighting the accusations of excessive file sharing.

“The short version: We’re organizing a call-in day to Congress on September 14 to oppose new legislation that would undermine the Betamax decision (INDUCE Act).”
“Here’s why: The Betamax VCR died more than 15 years ago, but the Supreme Court decision that made the Betamax and all other VCRs legal lived on. In Sony vs. Universal […]

Perhaps it’s too much time on his hands. Or maybe not enough? I’m not sure. Either way Ben Spink (what - you’ve never heard of him?) can control his TiVo over the web. I’m still trying to figure out if this is a step forward, backward, or in some undefined direction. I should also mention […]

I’m sure you’ve heard of gold (500,000) and platinum (1,000,000) records, but have you heard of gold and platinum downloads? The RIAA will be handing awards to tracks that sell a 100,000 copies (gold) on sites such as iTunes, Sony Connect and Napster, while sales of 200,000 singles will qualify an artist for platinum […]

In the news today the Department of Justice takes a rather strong stand on piracy. No not the boat kind, the media kind. The FBI took possession of computers from homes and an ISP. The computers (and their owners) were part of a private peer-to-peer network. While it might have been just one network the […]

Was pondering what media related news item, concept, or technology to write about and thought maybe I should just back away and write a bit about media itself.

Haven’t seen much of the Olympics, haven’t had much time. If you have been watching chances are it hasn’t been online. That’s right, NBC negotiated to be the exclusive provider of Olympic coverage in the US. What’s that mean? You gotta be watching them.