After a long dry spell, I finally have some good stories from around the Internet to share.<\/p>\n
This is an amazing piece of journalism that, so as to not provide spoilers, I will not attempt to describe. I think this passage at its close is the best summation:<\/p>\n
Some stories take on a life of their own because they show how things really are. Others spread because they tell us what we already believe. And sometimes a story that\u2019s too good to be true is just that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA radio station in Cincinnati has changed its callsign to WKRP<\/a>! Interestingly enough, it is owned by the same group that now owns WOXY, the callsign once owned by the streaming station of 20 years ago that fueled my love of indie rock. And now WOXY is rebroadcasting the WKRP feed. Radio is so weird these days.<\/p>\n
That feed just happens to focus on music of the 70s and 80s, right in the pocket of what the fictional WKRP played.<\/p>\n
WKRP<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe band Los Campesinos! shared how much (or little) money they make from streaming services and album sales a year or so ago. They are back with a full detailing of the financials of touring. They are not a typical band in many ways, but I think their story reflects the reality of the music business these days for all but the biggest acts. It\u2019s a wonder we still get new music or tours from anyone who doesn\u2019t have a deep back catalog.<\/p>\n
Los Campesinos! Break Down What It Actually Costs To Tour North America<\/a><\/p>\n
\nStephen Colbert is just about done at CBS. He did an exit interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. Hopefully this link works, as it is to an Apple News article and those can be finicky.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of conversations have you had with Seth Meyers and the Jimmys on the subject?<\/strong>
\nWhen I got canceled, the only other people I spoke to for days were those guys. I came up to my office [after making the announcement on-air] and flipped open my phone and we did a quick exchange. My favorite was Kimmel, who just said, \u201cThat\u2019s a hell of an Emmy campaign.\u201d I said, \u201cBusted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Stephen Colbert Exit Interview: \u201cI Did Not Expect It to End This Way\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\nStaying in that same general subject area, I\u2019m not a fan of Jimmy Fallon but even I think this take down of him is a little harsh. Barely.<\/p>\n
The real, unsettling mechanism of Fallon\u2019s banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act. Fallon doesn\u2019t\u00a0do<\/em>\u00a0politics, or if he does, he\u00a0wants to \u201ckeep his head down\u201d because \u201cwe hit both sides equally.\u201d Tellingly, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost\u00a0all\u00a0of the other\u00a0late night hosts\u2014Colbert, Kimmel, even Seth Meyers\u2014but excluded Fallon from his hit-list, because Trump recognizes that there\u2019s nothing about Fallon\u2019s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n