A Punch In the Gut Feeling

A Punch In the Gut Feeling

I’m a sucker. I admit it. I own what was purported to be the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge. And I own swampland in Florida that promises to be prime real estate as soon as climate change renders it an arid plain — or global warming causes the rising seas to turn...
I Can See Clearly Now: Part Two

I Can See Clearly Now: Part Two

As regular readers of my ravings are well aware, I’ve had some trouble keeping up with some of the latest developments in eye care, eye ware, and vision-correcting technologies and techniques. Well, I suspect, with no small degree of discomfort, that I may have...
A Hill of Beans

A Hill of Beans

Contrary to what you’re likely to expect — and in contrast to the comments at the end of the Business Insider post — I don’t have an opinion about this fluff piece: “We tried Dunkin’ Donuts’ and Starbucks’ hottest beverages of the...
The Singing Client

The Singing Client

I happened to hear a Johnny Winter favorite — “Love Song to Me” — from John Dawson Winter III over the weekend. It reminded me of a conversation I had with a client the week before and inspired me to write this verse: To some degree, I disagree; Although,...
Too Big to Scale

Too Big to Scale

A gentleman who refers to Australia quite a bit — and spells as if he’s from there (behaviour) — has jumped on the bandwagon, the players aboard which are playing a dirge for advertising. He wrote a piece called, “Don’t Be Advertising!” And he...
Get Your DUCKs in a Row

Get Your DUCKs in a Row

I’m noticing what seems to be a proliferation of a phenomenon called use cases. These seem to constitute vignettes or scenarios in which sellers of products or services illustrate various applications of said products or services — having already elucidated the...