I don’t know why, but it seems as if many of the ads that show up in the games I play on my iPhone have to do with clothing made from bamboo. Underwear seems to be particularly popular for some reason — and sexy, if the ads are to be believed. I don’t know if […]
From early 2000 to early 2004, I worked for an advertising agency in Avon, Connecticut. As you may have surmised from some of my earlier writings, my office was full of all manner of Batman stuff, including a neon Batman clock on the wall. There was a young, brilliantly talented graphic designer on the Creative […]
Here’s a highly unofficial and utterly arbitrary pop quiz: The photograph above is: A licensed furbearer trapper’s cabin in Bismarck, North Dakota? The home of our unlicensed neighbors across the street in Middletown, Connecticut, after two feet of climate change fell? But before we get to the answer, a little history: Bismarck, North Dakota, was […]
I’m not generally one to dispense advice, but I’m going to break character and offer four pieces here: If you’re taking your trash cans down a steep icy driveway, don’t let your feet fly out from underneath you, causing you to elevate horizontally and to whack the back of your noggin on the pavement when […]
The other morning, I was at the kitchen sink making coffee when Anne came into the room, opened the cabinet underneath the sink, and pulled out a bottle of Formula 409. The first thing I wondered was where the name came from. So, I looked it up. It’s an interesting story with which some liberties […]
If you’re a language snob like me, you pay attention to things other people don’t notice — or disregard if they do notice. I’ll cite a couple instances in a moment. But first, a note on linguistic mechanics — more specifically, a mechanical abbreviation with the literal, functional purpose of condensing terminology: initialism (noun): a […]
If you’ve never read anything I’ve written about my baby brother, Woody, here are a few things you should know: He loves animals. They love him (like Eddie and Sammy). He loves music. He particularly loves Christmas music. He loves Elvis Presley. He loves to sing. One year at Christmastime, my sister, Lynn, and her […]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, The Nigerian Prince was as mum as a mouse. “They know me,” he thought, “as the Master of Sham. But they’ll still take the bait for my Christmas Eve scam.” “I’ll tell them that Santa Claus had his sleigh filched, And children all over the […]
As this year was coming to its inevitable close, I found myself feeling more contemplative. Because I wasn’t sure why, I posed a number of questions to myself, each of which I was able to answer without taxing myself unduly. Here are some of them: Question: Do you think you’re becoming more reflective as you […]
‘Twas four days after Christmas at BIZCATALYST. Most things still looked normal, but there was a twist: Santa had skipped over Dennis and Ali. They somehow got left off his Christmas gift tally. So, Santa sent word out to 360 Nation To ask for some help with his miscalculation. And what to his wondering eyes […]
