Latest Amoeba Music shopping spree: You should all go buy these NOW! And while I love Newbury Comics, Amoeba Music is the greatest music store on the planet. Perhaps the galaxy, and likely the universe...
The (New) Office
Back when I lived in Hollywood, I spent most of my time working from home. The boss-man didn't want to incur unnecessary overhead, so in exchange for picking up the cost of my phone and internet, I never had to commute more than 10 steps from "home" to "work." For the most part, it was pretty sweet. But...
Why Wikipedia Rocks
JFK 50
Snowpocalypse Now
Legacy
Timbuk2: A love story
Too many folks today feel compelled to tell you how shitty their experience was with any retailer. It seems that bad news is far more interesting to share than the good kind. After a while, you start to get really pessimistic. The surplus of unwarranted cynicism is enough to make you assume that everyone’s just in it for the cash. This will not be that type of rant. In fact, this is closer...
What am I paying you for?
For anyone that’s a marketing consultant, you know the three steps to discomfort…. You submit an invoice to a normally happy client. They come back to you with: “what have you done? Why am I paying you this much?” You show them everything you did, which they don’t quite understand, and proceed to grumpily write you a check. Hopefully. Marketing isn’t a...
Something to be…
John Lennon
1940-1980
For a lot of people it seems bizarre to think that John Lennon died 30 years ago today. While not that long ago, 1980 was a completely different time and place for the music industry — if not the world at large. To remember John and his music, take a minute, sit back, and just soak it all in …