Odds and Ends and Odds

1. Like me, the Ad Contrarian has had a case of writer’s block. Or blog fatigue.  He’s now back after a month off, with this example of marketing at its finest. And I wonder why marketers get a bad name (especially from engineers, for some reason).
2.This spot-on animated parody about a social media guru, also found on [...]

Enough Already

When Emma was in Ireland, she made an interesting comment to me on the phone. She said that she couldn’t believe how much was going on in the world, with major situations happening in Iran and North Korea, and scandals in Great Britain (not that scandals in Great Britain really qualify as news anymore.)  And [...]

Top 10 reasons I haven’t been blogging

10. Watching Thriller video over and over and over again, sobbing and eating popcorn.
9. Too busy consoling Patti Blagojevich on getting booted off “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.” (Although, given the name, isn’t getting booted off the whole point?)
8. Hugh Jackman asked me to run away with him and had to go.
7. Was sitting [...]

The return of odds and ends

It’s been a while since I’ve done an “odds and ends” post. I’ve been too busy I haven’t made time to crawl the Web for useless interesting tidbits. So here we go:
1. Wonderful, wise post from my favorite crabby ad guy, the Ad Contrarian (who listed my blog on his site last week). Having been a client for [...]

10 jobs I’m really glad I don’t have

This morning I was thinking, “I’m really glad I don’t have to be Drew Peterson’s lawyer.” And that got me updating my list that I keep in my head of all the jobs I’m glad I don’t have. (Yes, I actually do keep lists of things like this in my head):
1. Drew Peterson’s lawyer. (Or Drew Peterson’s [...]

Mostly odds

1. My favorite blogger, Bob Hoffman (the Ad Contrarian), posted this on his blog, and simply said:
Stop what you’re doing and watch this.
I echo that. (It’ll take your mind off the swine flu):

2. CNN Breaking News: Swine flu blahblahblahblahblah
3. My favorite CNN headline of the day: “Baton twirler smacks down 2 [...]

What do the swine flu and broken escalators have in common?

There’s nothing that freaks me out more than the words “global pandemic.” (Deep breaths, deep breaths.) It freaks me out so much, in fact, that I’m tempted to stop reading newspapers, watching television or surfing the net (and putting my hands over my ears and chanting “la la la” really loud) so that I can [...]

Friday, Friday

1. Does George Will really think that this is worth worrying about? Adults who wear jeans? Really?
2. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, here’s Susan Boyle’s performance of “I Dreamed a Dream”, from Les Miserables, on “Britain’s Got Talent.”  (But be warned, you won’t be able to get the song out of your head. I’ve [...]

New and improved odds and ends

Not really, but I needed an attention-grabber
1. I enjoyed this post by Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame. Normally, I don’t take seriously political commentary written by magicians, but this one is worth a read.
2. Today’s John Kass column in the Tribune explains why Rod Blagojevich beat out Paul Vallas for governor in 2002.  I really [...]

I <3 Paris

But of course, I have a few suggestions to make it even better:
1. “To go” cups. I like to take my coffee with me. The only place to get a coffee to go is at Starbucks, and they are few and far between.
2.  Faster service. I realize that we are way too fast-paced here in [...]