Archive for 2009/02


Tramdock

"Holy crap. Your stuff just shipped." I found Tramdock via EpicSki.com.  I found EpicSki.com via Google. You could launch an expensive advertising campaign, buying space and time everywhere your agency can rip you off, but it probably won’t sell your product.  The nation has become immune to hype. Look at Bruce Springsteen’s appearance at the […]

Concert Crisis

"’Money was flowing, easy money.  Anybody could qualify–I mean anybody.’  He knew a bank teller with an annual salary of twenty-three thousand dollars who had received a two-hundred-and-sixteen-thousand-dollar mortgage, with no money down and no income verification” not even a phone call from a lender." I don’t own my own home.  I haven’t even got […]

Holly Holy

Irving was raving to me about Jennifer Hudson.  He’d hooked up with Vijay Singh at the golf tournament and then gone to the Super Bowl.  But Irving, she was ON TAPE!  But he told me she sang live in the stadium, that Jennifer was in the league of Christina. Yeah, right. Last night I went […]

The Boy From New York City

Dewey Martin died. Hopefully that rings a bell if you’re a baby boomer.  He was the drummer for Buffalo Springfield, a band whose true greatness wasn’t recognized until Crosby, Stills & Nash broke through and the masses, wanting more of this incredible sound, went to the store and bought "Retrospective", Buffalo Springfield’s greatest hits.  That’s […]