06/04/2007
And speaking of effective presentation techniques (in thoughts on life)
GOOD Magazine produces short informational films about various aspects of the modern world. This one's about porn on the internet. Ignore the music. A furtive thank you to DC. Read More
05/27/2007
I'll have a double. Straight up, please (in thoughts on life)
If you're ever in Adelaide, Australia, and you wander into the Rocket Bar, please let me know how this tastes. Quite flattering to be up there between Herbie Hancock and The Egyptian Lover. Thanks to DJ Food, currently killing it Down Under, ... Read More
05/23/2007
On second thought, send me a text message; I've got another one of those headaches (in thoughts on life)
The latest print issue of the Columbia Journalism Review carries a paragraph about what might be considered an important story; one that's running on the front page of newspapers in Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Israel and Canada, but n ... Read More
05/22/2007
The Wall, y'all (in thoughts on life)
I just played at Bohannon, a great club in Berlin. The party was live, the guys who booked me were excellent people, and the house DJ (DJ Resoul) was intimidating. They put me up in a hotel in the former Eastern Sector, right across the stree ... Read More
05/06/2007
I'll bet you thought there was nothing worse than a marketing call on a Sunday morning (in thoughts on life)
But some pudgy VP of marketing at a movie studio had a brilliant idea. Read More
My continuing fascination with PowerPoint presentations (in thoughts on life)
First off - my apologies for the lack of posts in the last few days. I've been battling a fierce cold, so I'm spending a lot of the day laid out, listening to my sinuses drain. The rest of the time I stumble around in a self-pitying, mucosoid da ... Read More
05/01/2007
Good thing Jesus is coming soon (in thoughts on life)
Because he'll undoubtedly tell us there's no such thing as global warming, it's just the gentle radiance of God's love. In the meantime, examine these photographs from the US Geological Survey providing evidence that Glacier National Park is ... Read More
04/12/2007
Ralphie's Bop City Pt. 6 (in thoughts on life)
Really the most satisfying part of doing the entire project was hearing answers that surprised and delighted with their unexpected quality. That's what made the best questions so good; they were broad enough so that there weren't a lot of duplic ... Read More
03/28/2007
Ralphie's Bop City Pt. 5 (in thoughts on life)
Parties and lunches weren't the only contact I had with Bop City callers. Going through the folder into which I tossed everything Ralphie-related, I've found quite a bit of correspondence, which I'll dig into further in the near future. But one ... Read More
03/18/2007
Ralphie's Bop City, Pt. 4 (in thoughts on life)
The first Ralphie's Bop City meet 'n greet event in Battery Park was a hit (as far as I was concerned), and I ran the scenario a few more times. Of the 2 gala occasions we'll examine in this post, one was on a smaller scale, and one considerabl ... Read More