A Little Ditty About Kerri and Nikki: Part One
After a few decades in the business, Nikki Sixx is still scrambling our brains with his misnomers and his mania, still talking about life and music like it’s his last seconds behind the mic. We could say he’s one of the few constants in our music-listening lives. He’s been up to every challenge life has […]
Aw fawk!
The studio came to a complete halt. My decidedly New York-union commercial crew was mesmerized by a post that hit the grip’s Twitter account. “Cashman just told A-Rod he should just shut the fawk up on Twittaw. He’s a badass.” From there it was wall-to-wall Noo Yawk Tawk, because after all, there are only two […]
MGS CHAT: Tom Brady
Tom Brady is the timeless quarterback of the New England Patriots. Married to THE supermodel and a three time Super Bowl Champion. A quick chat to get us ready for football. Hopefully part II, where he discusses Giselle, will be on the horizon… Q: What is your reaction to the signing of another quarterback in […]
Don’t Sell Your Back Cover Short!
The number of self-published books has exploded, growing 287 percent since 2006, according to research by Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States. “In 2012, more than 235,000 print and e-books were self-published in the United States, up from 148,424 in 2011,” says award-winning marketing strategist Catherine Foster, executive publisher/CEO of BlueSky Publish
The Neon Museum
Before Twitter and Facebook and the whole word of mouth substitute known as social media hit the landscape, Las Vegas owned the blog-o-sphere when it was still called the “newspaper industry.” The primary reason was the glitter of their neon signs and endless string of lights that danced in front of us promising fortune to […]
Need a break? Here are some wild news stories…
Ok. Ok. I know. Fox Entertainment was supposed to run the full story. Perhaps I was a bit too full of myself. Regardless, here is the unabashed, unabridged version of wild news stories. First up, gorgeous Amanda Seyfried is letting the world know she was much hotter during her younger years. The actress told Ellen […]
5 Mistakes that Quash Corporate Innovation
We’ll get to the story as soon as I get outside my office and act like an anthropologist… I bet you already know that the biggest breakthroughs in the history of business – and the history of the world – are never the result of conventional thinking. The Media Guy ran into Maria Ferrante-Schepis, a […]
Taking Credit Where Credit is (Maybe) Not Deserved…
Is it any wonder that Christina Aguilera’s Twitter followers went up 100k since the #jeffyandlola column hit two weeks ago? Photo by: Michael Lloyd
TURKISH DELIGHTS
I just cracked a Skyfall DVD and seeing Daniel Craig cycling across Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar conjured up memories of a top secret mission press trip The Media Guy recently took to Turkey. I needed to get it all down in writing so you can take a similar trip if you so choose. Only 13 hours […]
The Writer’s Office
The writer is a peculiar animal. And when the mechanics of crafting that perfect piece of literature, a script or speech for a local politician, it’s rarely a routine method. Each writer has his own panache, knack and tolerances. But if there’s one thing virtually any writer just can’t do without, it’s the writers’ room. […]
