Luddites Unite!

I pondered what it might take to lure Netty from out of the depths of the Jersey woods and back onto my sliver of techno drudgery.  And I think I have found it.  I’ll just stuff it into this imaginary picnic basket and leave it on a table next to my stack of Florence Henderson nude centerfolds [...]

Once we made cars that could take your breath away.  Now we make cars that help us breath easier.

The spirit that drove the automotive industry is dead and we stand by, helpless.  Imagine a child trying to bring a beloved sibling back to life by fiddling with its corpse.

Its here.

It is also where I have been for the past week.  Missouri is the home of Save - A – Lot, in a little town called Earth City, a suburb of St. Louis.  I spent the week going through advanced management training, which translates into re – learning the Zenger Miller training I went through [...]

I work with this girl who’s elevator does not go all the way up.  She’s oddly spacey, shows almost no emotion, speaks in a dull monotone and can’t remember more than two things at any one time.  She literally saunters when she walks; hips swaying, left arm at a 30 degree angle, wrist bent outward, [...]

Coors beer has come out with an amazing innovation: a beer can that changes colors when it is cold.  That’s right, when a Coors’s 16 ounce can of happiness hits just the right temp it turns blue faster than Ashton Kutcher’s balls after Demi watches a rerun of Moonlighting.

 And thank God for blue color turning cans.  [...]

Movies to see:

‘Igby Goes Down’ -a wonderfully dark little comedy starring one of the crazy Culkin kids who does an exceptional job (perhaps because life imitates art a bit in this film?).  Seriously, Kieran Culkin reminds me of a young Mortin Downy before the drugs, or is it during the drugs?  And it has Jeff Goldblum [...]