Retailers in the United States have closed or announced the closing of almost 2,600 brick-and-mortar stores and the avalanche is expected to continue. FACT-O-RAMA! The closings are all from January 1 to May 3, 2024 which means we are losing 20.9 storefronts per day. At this rate, 7,628 stores will close by December 31. […]
Should women be pushed aside in the name of Dragon Ball? Or can some form of conciliation avert a showdown? That’s the drama brewing within the manga world in the wake of Akira Toriyama’s sudden death on March 1, which was publicly announced on March 8. Toriyama’s death at the age of 68, which came […]
Happy Friday, Gentle Readers, I hope this missive finds you well. I enter the weekend both hopeful and hopeless. As a March Madness fanatic, I was thrilled to watch my Dayton Flyers knock off Nevada yesterday in a nail-biting, come-from-behind 63-60 win. We’ll see what happens in Round 2. I don’t know who they […]
New details have emerged about the condition of manga artist Akira Toriyama, who created the wildly popular “Dragon Ball” series, and died March 1. The official X account for “Dragon Ball” said merely that Toriyama died at the age of 68 “due to acute subdural hematoma.” However, further details were not immediately announced for the […]
The subject line in the email from the Kennedy campaign read “Darling Nikki.” Being an 80s kid, I recognized it as the title from a Prince song. Of course, that song was about a torrid assignation between Prince and a 17-year-old singer. See, folks? The culture has been trending downward for much longer than […]
Good news for all you New Year’s Eve revelers planning to attend the traditional ball drop in Times Square: the New York police are saying that there are “no specific credible threats” against Sunday’s festivities. That’s good to know. But I don’t have a lot of confidence in the […]
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