The scent of a Poseur?

Sometime next year there will be a new men’s fragrance on the market. One that will reach out to the little people, the disenfranchised, the weak, those that live in the margins. For people with too much eye shadow and love the color black. Yes, folks -Marilyn Manson is coming out with [...]

The magic of the number that is: 100

I was/am in charge of recruiting for my new store. I was told to expect to get 70 new hires, but we needed 100. 100 new hires is a number to shoot for, a goal no had ever reached before. You lose something like 20 in the time from when you hire [...]

Nanucke of the North

The cold has arrived, a least for the moment. In Florida the cold is always short lived. Me, I love it. I live for it. I am the Human Heater. If I was a comic book character that would be my name. It can be 10 below and I [...]

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to indentured servitude I go!

Go find a cliff or tall building. Stare down. Then step off. Weeeeee! The last thing through your mind will be your feet.

This little ’scene’ represents what I’m facing starting the end of next week. We will finally go into the store and start putting in merchandise. We have [...]

Will Blow Self Up For Oil For Food

I just watched the three very well executed car bombs that happened yesterday in Iraq. They were attacking the journalists. Normally I condone any behavior that is anti journalist, but this was a tad too much. This video footage should be shown after basic training and upon deployment. Ladies and [...]

I’m a wild and crazy guy! (at the local chess club)

Well, that annual event known as the Halloween Party happened again. And I totally forgot about it. And I made my usual half-assed last minute attempt to get a costume. It would have worked too, except my cheap mustache and eyebrows kept falling off -making Gene Shallot The Pimp not as convincing [...]

Main Street my ass

About 8 years ago I made a prediction. I predicted that malls would have to look more like Main Street to keep traffic coming in. That the sterile collection of stores in one place was not enough to draw customers. I was right.

Then the Citrus Town Center opened in Tampa. [...]

South Park = satire? Go South Park!

I watched an episode of South Park tonight that just nailed it. It got it right. The episode lambasted every aspect of the recent disaster situations. Nobody was spared –but the media was repeatedly attacked, as well as scientists and their claims of global warming. I laughed out loud several times.

I [...]

Remembering When

Feeling a tad forlorn tonight. The wife and I went to Lakeland and drove around a bit, had a nice meal at Harry’s, went to Books-a-Million.

Some odd part of me likes to take note of what business are where. Who’s new, who’s gone and who’s changed. It is something I have always [...]

24 Hours of non-stop news coverage.. aka.. garbage

What costs at least a million dollars in wasted TV revenue and mis-used payroll and is made out of wood?

Think about it…

You can do it….

Answer: that stupid bridge in New England that refuses (despite everyone in the news biz wishing it to be otherwise) to collapse.