Showing Off Big Boobs Gets Her the Boot
In one of the trade papers a small item caught my eye. ‘Busty Tourist told to cover up or leave,’ it said, quickly getting my attention. Stuff.co.nz had the rest of the story. “A night of celebration turned to humiliation when an English tourist’s “offensive” breasts upset fellow punters at […]
World Hum Rejects Me–with Class
I got a nice rejection letter from my friend Jim Benning who runs World Hum, an interesting travel website based in California. I have been interested in Jim because earlier this year the website was acquired by the Travel Channel. I remember talking with him about his business a few […]
The Idea of Free Wireless is Great–Just not for Real
Today’s WSJ had a story with the gloomy headline: Free Wi-Fi Still An Elusive Goal. The story told of how difficult it has been to roll out and ‘monetize’ the envisioned beltway of free wireless connections on every town square and across miles and miles of the US. At one […]
Pissing People Off Every Day on Readuponit
I am constantly amazed at how mad I make people with this blog. Who knew that words I peck here reach so far and wide…but they do. So you will just have to guess which blog got somebody so steamed up I had to remove it. No, don’t try to […]
Women Who Make Big Bucks Beef About Poor Boyfriends
I went out and bought the ridiculously expensive Sunday NY Times for the cafe. $5.00?! Come on! But inside, as usual, was a bunch of first-rate articles including a feature on why women who make big bucks have such a hard time finding dates. Subtitled “young women discover the pitfalls […]
A Soft Fall Evening in the City that Springfield Wants to Be
Saturday morning at the cafe. We went down to the city last night and the deck at the Depot was glorious. It had that soft easy early fall feeling, just the right temp and perfect time to meet my lovely lady for a glass of wine. We’re pleased to have […]
A Fine Man Speaks His "Last Lecture"
We both felt wobbly Cindy and I, after we read in the WSJ about Professor Randy Pausch,45, and his graceful grip on his exit from this world. Diagnosed with deadly pancreatic cancer, he strode up to the lectern at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver his final thoughts. The last words, […]
The Sober Buddy Doesn’t Come Cheap
Nikki Finke is a toughie and a funny writer. She writes about Hollywood with a scorched keyboard in LA Weekly. She pointed out a new trend in LA that’s bubbling up to the mainstream. “Hollywood is now indulging in a different kind of rehab substitute. It’s intense and round the […]