Men of Letters: Charlie Rose, Hunter Thompson.
Never write a letter, never throw one away. –Attributed to the late private investigator and consultant Thomas Corbally, two medieval priests, and […]
Month: January 2024
E. Jean Carroll’s alright by me.
I like E. Jean Carroll. Always have. Fine and accomplished writer. Hoosier. Midwesterner. Funny as hell. Former super-jock. Cheerleader. Ex-beauty queen. Former […]
Drink Colonial Predator
Don’t forget. My new Colonial Predator Unfair Trade Coffee product launches March 1. All the Oppression,Twice the Caffeine.
Hull Hoops DNA
Center bottom photo: My Great Aunt Helen Hull in 1922. Born 1906. So that makes 4 generations and counting of serious Hull-McCracken […]
Cultural Literacy For America’s White Collars: When?
ÃŽle Saint-Louis on the Seine, seen from a famous bridge. Americans, the Alpha-humans, the elect and the “winners” in modern world history, […]
Lucien Carr: Beat icon, pro, original, excitable boy.
Lucien Carr: Beat icon, pro, original, work ethic rich kid, excitable boy. I met Beat badboy legend Carr once and briefly when […]
April 30, 2022
John Shields, 1971 Class Valedictorian, Indian Hill High School, Indian Hill, Ohio, on April 30, 2022. No, he’s not dead. I just […]
Rule 6: “…sending to clients barrages of small but powerful ads.”
It’s scary. If you’re working, you’re marketing–and that is Rule 6 of the 12 Rules.
J. London, honorary Boomer
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – J.L.
Oppression Joe
“Oppression Coffee” is a startup I’ve joked about but I am now thinking seriously about launching it. Unlike ‘fair trade’ coffee products […]
The Shakespeare Edition. Blawg Review #318: Fully-Engaged, Participatory, Risk-Taking, Pro-Immersion, Get-Off-Your-Knees, Change-the-World Will Shakespeare-Hunter Thompson Edition.
HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more […]
Romain Rolland, 1866-1944. Nobel Prize in Literature 1915.
Let’s hear it for those who create. Babies, books, music, art, new ideas. New forms and new minds. Below: Romain Rolland, 1866-1944. […]
Disraeli: On Bad Books
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]
Listen to this again.
Listen to this again. And again. Get your mind right, Campers.
Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
You think you’re scrappy, resourceful, resilient and tough? Robert Frost spent his life as a poet, student, teacher, newspaper reporter, farmer, factory […]
World Famous Soulful Way-Awesome 12 Rules of Client Service
1. Represent only clients you like. 2. The client is the main event. 3. Make sure everyone in your firm knows the […]
Hail Charlotte.
My 2nd favorite Tom Wolfe book. “I am Charlotte Simmons.” Plot: Hillbilly Mensa babe cracks Duke University.
Charlotte Rampling. Still Smoldering in 3 Languages.
Bring back real women. Please. Below: Cannes Film Festival 2001.
Claudine Gay
The point may now be moot, but the important question for Harvard was never whether Gay should step down. It was why […]
Seven Years at Choate: Mysteries of the Handwritten Thank-You Note
The Governess, 1739, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) In case your Governess never told you, you’re from Utah, or you were stoned all seven […]