Is it Internet buzz if you read about it in the straight media, hear about it on television?  Isn’t that why it’s important to BEGIN WITH, that it’s happening OUTSIDE the system, and if you co-opt it and try to amplify it do you add to the buzz or are you just reporting a narrow […]

I’m constantly bombarded with e-mails from entrepreneurs promoting their new business ideas.  They’re almost always a newfangled label. It’s no longer about the label.  It’s about the talent. Used to be you needed money.  To navigate the waters of distribution and marketing.  But although those can now help, they’re an ever-decreasing part of the pie.  […]

Back before I was married, back in ’86, when I was living together with my ex-wife, we house sat for a couple who lived on Bristol, in Brentwood. If you live in L.A., you know the street of which I’m speaking. Between San Vicente and Sunset. The one with the CIRCLES! I discovered it by […]

I’m anxious about going to Chile. Felice always believes she’s going to forget how to ski.  If we don’t go for a couple of months, she gets nervous.  That all her progress is going to disappear.  And after lamenting this on the phone between our two trips to Mammoth in June, I opined we could […]