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Last night Loretta Alper must have been damn proud. That’s because a packed to the rafters, turn-people-away-at-the-door crowd piled into the Academy of Music theater to see the film she produced make its debut. The film is ‘War Made Easy: how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death‘ and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Popping around the ‘net on Monday night, I met the tasered guy named Andrew Meyer. He was questioning the very boring Sen. John Kerry at a Florida speech and they asked him to leave. He refused and was famously tasered, and of course the videotape is on YouTUbe with the […]
Nicholas Eberstadt writes an op-ed piece in today’s WSJ that highlights a striking problem with man messing around with nature. He weighs in the China’s One Child Policy, that since 1979 has created a juggernaut of population make-up problems and caused something that has never happened before. Now there are […]
