Tag Archives: holidays

Stevie Wilson on The Swag Culture of LA

I just posted an article onto Marketing Conversation called Gifting Bloggers Doesn’t Mean Pushing Swag and within minutes Stevie Wilson of LA-Story wrote the most amazing comment on the culture of swag that is commonplace in Los Angeles, California… (via Marketing Conversation)
Swag is the name of the game in Los Angeles– in a city that […]

The Road to Firebrand Monday is Paved With Turf

The Road to Firebrand starts next week on ION (at 11PM every weekday night) and online at Firebrand.com. Firebrand loves working with me because I love commercials more than I love television. I am an evangelist. This week, they’re coming down the pike with something called The Road to Firebrand, “the multi-million dollar media […]

The Market Will Have a Very Bad Day Today

I just read on the wire that “India’s Sensitive Index tumbled 2,029.05 points, or 11.5%, to 15,576.30 in the early minutes, forcing trade to be halted for an hour” which might act as an indicator that the US and European markets may well plunge when they’re opened in the morning. Hopefully, the automatic safe […]

Mr Bean’s Holiday and Emma de Caunes

I just caught Mr. Bean’s Holiday and laughed my ass off for a solid 90-minutes. And, of course, then there was Mlle Emma de Caunes. Le sigh.

My Selfish Attitude to Life on Whales

Check out this loving comment in response to Don’t Save the Whales,
“i’m not sure of what your point is?! whats wrong with trying to save the whales, or any animal for that matter? why are you saying that only whales shouldn’t be saved? why not all other endangered species? i think you are wrong as […]

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii Garlands of Flowers Everywhere!

“…May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i
Garlands of flowers
ev’rywhere,
All of the colors in the rainbow
Maidens with blossoms in their hair
Flowers that mean we shoud be happy,
Throwing aside a load of care,
Oh, May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i
Lei Day is happy day out there.”
~ Red Hawke, 1928

My Experience as a JROTC Ranger in High School in Hawaii

Although I am not certain any of the following actually happened, I am going to regale you with some of the boorish stories I have been sharing with friends for years. They are all St Louis School JROTC Rangers stories. In High School, I was in JROTC and a member of the elite […]

My Schooling as OpFor

Some of my friends know that I was in JROTC as a boy in my all-boys Catholic School, Saint Louis School.
And some of them even know that I was a JROTC Ranger and that I wore my Class-A Army Uniform with spit-polished jump boots and a black beret. A couple close friends know that when […]

If You Don’t Save the Whales then You Suck

I got a scolding from Chalsea, “you might think that whales dont matter but your wrong. ya you need to take care of your family but we also need to save are world. all of you that sont think that the whales arent important than you SUCK,” because I wrote an article called Don’t […]

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