An Epiphany About The Future of Piffany
While on a walkabout today at my local waterfront park, I realized I’m on the verge of not just a milestone birthday, but also two landmark anniversaries in...
A Piffany About Sports (and Comedy and The Olympics)
It all started with good intentions, didn’t it? I could be referring to the above image, capturing the first-ever 100-meter dash that opened the first...
A Piffany About Fast Food Fish
I do not recall when I first noticed this, just that I cannot not notice it now. Every year, without fail, the week of Mardi Gras heralds a new season of...
Mini Piffanies About Zack Snyder's Justice League
While the situation revolving around paid newsletter platforms continues to evolve, so I’m not any closer to making this Substack paid as of yet, please...
A Piffany About Clout Chasing And Complicity
I knew the exact moment my time in tabloid journalism had expired. You’d get partial credit if you guessed my very first day on staff at the New York Daily...
A Piffany About Badvertising
Despite existing in one form or another for several centuries now, advertising remains an immature medium. Sometimes all too literally. “Sex sells.” “There’s...
A Piffany About Groundhog Day
Originally published today for Decider.com with the headline:Stuck In Self-Pity, Addiction or Just Plain Stuck? Watch and Learn From ‘Groundhog Day’Here’s...
A Piffany About Privilege Trumping Politics
So. About this.How can so many people get it so wrong, all in their quest to be right? Well, let’s get into it. On Sunday afternoon, people watching NFL on...
A Piffany about the Nonprofitability of News
Earlier this week, The Salt Lake Tribune announced a plan to seek nonprofit status, shifting from a privately-owned business to a “community asset.”Paul...
A Piffany about Gods and Superheroes
As a child, every so often, I’d let out a “Shazam!” whether the situation called for it or not.As a grown-up man-child, I still did! Or still do. But I...
A Piffany about Getting Into College
College admissions do not happen in a vacuum. Nor does each individual applicant’s journey.Thirty years ago this week, a slender envelope began to make its...
A Piffany about Piffany
I'm tired. You're tired. We're all tired. But we cannot, must not fall asleep during this critical moment. How we choose to respond to blatant corruption and...