What the world needs is another Monster Island

I Remember when I was a kid and got to watch those wonderful Japanese Giant Monster movies. Godzilla, Mothra, Mecha-Godzilla, Godzukie, Gamorra, those two tiny Japanese chicks.. I could go on and on. How great was that? Every Saturday would have a double feature (Creature Feature!) serving up monstery goodness. But [...]

“I wish I knew then what I know now..” i.e. a tale told to a younger version of me.

I was reconciling an employee’s till so he could leave for the day. He’s a young kid, early 20’s, seemed smart, outgoing. I had not met him before today so we did the perfunctory retail acquaintance exchange of bona-fides. I talked of stores I have managed in my past and he spoke [...]

Friday Night reality

I watched the end of the movie; ‘Friday Night Lights’ which is a somewhat true movie about the all too real experience of playing high school football in Texas. Seems football in Texas is right up there in Things of Importance alongside dying for loved ones and being a God-fearing Patriot. For [...]

Having long loomed, the holidays arrive.

Today was Drew’s B-day. Being born on Christmas eve is a hardship for just about everybody involved, but the kid handles it with aplomb. His take (or haul, or booty depending on which pirate handbook you own, I personally use Strunk and Wagnall’s) was pretty good, our financial situation rescued in just enough [...]

Now you too can work in an office, make a little money every week and have an ass for a boss!

Ever wonder about those work at home commercials? They make it sound so easy. In just a few short weeks you can be raking in the cha-ching. Not only that, but those checks will grow bigger and bigger, all while working in the comfort of your home office in your new palatial [...]

Between the Few and the Far

Hello, Constant Reader. Some of you may have been wondering where I have been for the past month or so. I really didn’t want to post it too blatantly on the blog, but I was out of town training. I would have loved to have posted from the road but it was [...]

Further evidence of why the Marketing industry should choke on its own crap.

While walking into a convenience store tonight I saw an ad on the side of a garbage can for a new brand of chewing tobacco. It is called ‘Cope’ by the Copenhagen Chewing Tobacco brand. This is suppose to be the finest, most smooth chewing tobacco they have to offer, but I can’t [...]

Have a raptured filled holiday!

As I was driving around the other day I kept seeing these piles of what appeared to be cloths lying on the ground on the front-yards of people’s houses. Bright festive piles of cloths. Then I figured out that these are what happen to those blow-up Christmas decorations that have turned suburbia into [...]