Category Archives: Bob Lefsetz
Lefsetz: The Almightiness of Facebook
When was the last time you changed your word processor? Anybody remember arguing over WordPerfect and WordStar? Maybe you were a fan of the Mac-only WriteNow. But now you just use Word, Apple’s Pages or some notes app. Maybe something … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: 10th Anniversary iPhone 8
Tech is about utility, not fashion… And there’s no breakthrough coming, other than a curved screen. You needed a new phone when they went from 3G to LTE. You needed a new phone when they increased the screen size. You … Continue reading
Lefsetz: The Conundrum That Is Twitter
Twitter Results are being misjudged… Tomorrow the short-messaging social network will reveal its numbers and the analysts will gasp, the pundits will swoon, and everybody will say that Twitter needs to be fixed. But that’s not the truth at all. … Continue reading
Lefsetz: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Queen of Cable
She’s the left wing explainer in chief… I’ve become addicted to the news. Not just the papers which arrive every day, whose apps I’m constantly checking on my phone, but TV, which I mostly catch via satellite on Sirius XM. That’s right, … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Chalk One Up for Mankind; Bill O’Reilly Takes a Bullet
No one is bigger than the system… You may think you rise above – that you’re better than the rest of us, know more, are entitled to more – but that’s not true. Furthermore, the nature of human beings is … Continue reading
Lefsetz: It’s the End of the World as We Know it
Am I the only one freaked out about this? I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was only 9 years-old, but I was plenty scared. I remember visiting my grandparents in Peabody, Mass., lying on the sloping porch of their … Continue reading
Lefsetz: The ‘Man Bun’ Conundrum
When did this become a thing? I first started noticing it on hipsters. Yoga-pants wearing males sporting sandals who seemed to be saying, “I’m expending so much energy that I just cannot have my hair on my neckline preventing my … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: The Definitive Chuck Berry Obit
He was the father of rock and roll… Oh, don’t talk to me about Bill Haley. Boomers were barely conscious at the time “Rock Around The Clock” was a hit, if they were alive at all. And Little Richard and … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Time to Put An End to Hate?
Should we blame the Internet or income inequality – the inability to rise above and get ahead? Every damn day people tell me I’m an asshole online. And let me tell you, if I say something negative about you or your … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Academy Awards / Oscars are for Oldsters
Who cares? How did America’s go-to awards show – the creme de la creme – lose touch with its audience? Let’s start with the movies themselves. Not only is the human touch that built Hollywood purveyed now on television, but … Continue reading
Lefstez: The Reason We have No Protest Music Today
1. Mariah Carey Bob Dylan looked up to Woody Guthrie, today’s nitwits admire Mariah Carey. That’s right, she hit almost three decades ago and dominated the ’90s. And what was her message? Empty hedonism sung by a woman with great pipes. … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Sprint’s Jay Z – Tidal Deal a Joke
Why does everybody have to be a businessman? I get that artists have been ripped off from time immemorial, but the acquisition and promotion of Tidal has proven that when it comes to understanding technology, artists are clueless. However they are greedy. … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Ringling Brothers Death Sign of the Times
I went at the old Madison Square Garden twice, maybe three times… The last time I finally put my foot down and told my mother I didn’t actually like ballet and wasn’t going to go anymore. Then my father took … Continue reading
Lefstez: Debbie Reynolds & The Game of Life
The thing about life is it can always get worse… We like to believe God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but do we even believe in God? We believe there’s a master plan, that it all makes … Continue reading
Lefsetz: This Year’s Lessons
Stuff happens to interrupt your plans… The more you look into the future, the more you’ll be interrupted by the present. Screw being here now, screw mindfulness, just know that life is about unexpected interruptions and the older you get … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Time to Revamp the ‘Lamestream Media’
The people telling us to give Trump a chance are the same overpaid wankers who missed the tsunami that got him elected… The most educated person I’ve ever known was Tony Wilson, majordomo of Factory Records. Want to know more? … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Attacking Trump
It didn’t work then and it won’t work now… Makes me want to give up my membership in the card-carrying elite – the educated members of our society who can hold two opposing thoughts in their brain at the same … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Are the NFL’s Glory Days Behind It?
The story is that the Presidential election is hurting NFL ratings… However the “Walking Dead” won Sunday night. Turns out zombies trump overdeveloped men when they go head to head. This has been a long time coming. That’s the story of … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Lady Gaga Lays an Egg
It’s a stiff… Ignore the sales chart. That’s where hard core fans and kooky-loos go to participate, the store. The action is now in streaming, where we can see right away if anybody is listening. AND THEY’RE NOT! It’s staggering, … Continue reading
Lefsetz: HBO’s Vice News Tonight —Out With the Old!
It’s all about trust… Shane Smith and his roving group of merrypersons are going to take over the news business, they’re gonna hijack it in plain sight, just like MTV became the music juggernaut. But this is different. Because Vice … Continue reading
