The Nigerian Times had a story about the value of speaking more than one language tonight. “A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man […]
Joe O’Rourke and I used to enjoy reading Bob Garfield’s ad reviews in Advertising Age when we both worked in ad sales at the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Here is Garfield’s review of a new ad campaign. “Millions of Americans are intimidated or overwhelmed by this annual [tax prep] chore, and […]
Progress, progress, the cafe is moving ahead and we can’t wait to show it all off on Tuesday. Last night I joined about 70 of my neighbors at a fundraiser on Crestview Drive. This is a wide street with underground utility wires (the mark of a high rent district) located […]
Johannes Brongers wants to help. So he’s going to Afghanistan to do his job in a far less tranquil environment. In June, he leaves with his wife Janet to live in Kabul and help run the American University in Afghanistan. There are only 58 students now, they hope to expand […]
I was pleased to read a draft of new GoNOMAD blogger Paul Shoul’s story about his trip to Boise. I was even more pleased when I saw his collection of photos, which, as usual, are stunning and fit right in with his text. Shoul understands the tone and tenor of […]
Tonight as I sit here in my big chair my feet ache. I’ve been working very hard at the cafe all day, and we’ve got encouraging results to show for our labors. This morning, as the wind whipped the snow around, I hired a young man from the neighborhood named […]
Julie Amero has lived a computer pop-up nightmare. Now she’s been convicted of unwittingly exposing her students to pornography after a storm of sexual images flooded the screen in a classroom computer. You can imagine how it must have felt, not being able to stop the awful pictures one, another, […]
John Fialka and Kathryn Kranhold write in today’s WSJ about GE’s credibility gap. The company is fighing stricter standards on smog, while they push their image as a ‘green company.’ One ad shows a GE locomotive pulling a train through a rainforest and smokefree eden. They say the EPA’s push […]
Michael Lewis writes on Bloomberg.com about the rise and fall of Todd Thomson, who was once the wunderkind of Citigroup’s Global Wealth Division. Thomson was fired last month after reports surfaced that he commandeered a company jet to fly CNBC anchorbabe Maria Bartiromo to a conference, and used his marketing […]
I have enjoyed blogging immensely since I first began more than 1414 posts ago in November 2004. Kent quickly followed suit, after reading mine and seeing how much fun I was having, in January 2005, Be Our Guest joined the GoNOMAD blog team. Then about six months later, my associate […]
Snowstorm headed for Bay State, people rejoice in New England’s streets! Chris Choate took this photo in Scriba, NY. Anita Davis and Michael Givins wrote in today’s Boston Herald about the good news we’ve all been eagerly waiting for: IT’S GONNA FREAKIN’ SNOW! While plow drivers have been cursing the […]
It is nice waking up in the cold winter morning and reading some good news about Africa in the NY Times. “Recent studies of vegetation patterns, based on detailed satellite images and on-the-ground inventories of trees, have found that Niger, a place of persistent hunger and deprivation, has recently added […]