The Christmas season is always the most busy and rushed time of the year. But in all of this excitement, some of us thrive; we like it busy, busy, busy with all sorts of stuff coming at you at once. Well I do anyway. This morning Tom Vannah from the […]

More from Mediaweek. Magazine sales executives, described in this piece as a supremely jaded group, have been wowed by the kinds of ad pieces made possible by Americhip, a California company that produces the underlying technology in all those multimedia ads so popular these days. Americhip is the largest of […]

From the LA Times today. The Advertising Model Is Dying: Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein has put his comic touch to the topic of advertising, which he posits is no longer a viable enterprise. How *can* it be? When HBO, which books no ads, is the most profitable network, […]

This morning I had a root canal. It only hurt when I paid. But while the doctor was getting ready, he told me he traveled to South America and Africa helping poor people by fixing their teeth. In the Latin countries, he said he had no problem using sign language […]

Denise Schwartz stopped by last week when the Gazette was interviewing us for their story about the cafe. Below is part of what the Sunday Republican just published about our plans. “DEERFIELD – Sandwiched between the pickle company, the insurance agency, the family restaurant and the filling station that has […]

Coffee, Coffee, how I love thee! Today we met and tasted coffees from two different vendors, with two different ways and mannerisms. The first was here at 10 am, and he brought a thermos of his freshest brew, and a few bags of his product to leave behind. He was […]

Reading a book by Maureen Orth, a Vanity Fair Reporter, called “The Importance of Being Famous,” I came across this chapter on Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. “There was nothing fragile about Mia,” her mother says. And nothing remotely conventional. By the time she was eighteen, she was a porcelain […]

William Powers writes about the media’s waning affection for Google in National Journal today.Who’s next? I think the worm is about to turn on Google. The company’s ascent has been too rapid, its successes too extravagant. As I wrote this sentence a few days ago, Google’s stock price was $416, […]

John Lennon: Yoko’s Cash-In Continues, reports Roger Freidman on Fox News today. “All right, this is for hard even for yours truly to believe, but here goes. It looks as if Yoko Ono has licensed a John Lennon action figure that will be sold, I don’t know, in stores of […]

Kelsey Flynn is leaving the River! So here is today’s entry on her blog. “Please Hold Your Applause Until the End — Today was my last day on the River Morning Show on my own. All next week I’ll be accompanied by one of the five W-R-S-Idol semi-finalists. May I […]