lullaby pit

I noted recently that I’ve been asked to join the blogging crew at IABC. I’ll probably xpost a lot of what I write for them here. Here’s the inaugural entry. _____________ When I was younger I worked in restaurants. Waited tables, bartended, and supervised a staff of 50+ waiters. Waiting, in particular, taught me a lot of lessons. For instance:

Finally, after all these years, last night I met, live and in person, the incomparable Don Dixon (Web site and MySpace). He played a fantastic solo show at The Evening Muse in Charlotte, with a set list that included much of his new CD (The Entire Combustible World in One Small Room) and plenty of older favorites, and ranging from

Bode: Media made him ‘most hated Olympic athlete’ SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Bode Miller arrived at the 2006 Winter Olympics as the superstar American skier who carried an abundance of talent and an outsized personality to match. Then came his disappointing performance at the Torino games, where he failed to earn a single medal and was scrutinized for his enthusiastic

I’m always looking for new ways of overextending myself, and have recently found another one. I’m now writing for the IABC’s branding blog (that’s International Association of Business Communicators). I’ve occasionally hit on business issues in my past blogging activities, but this is a little different audience. They don’t know it yet, but I’ll be using the soapbox to promote

There are things we “should do” in life. That list has a general component – things that everybody ought to do – and depending on our vocation and some other factors, there’s an additional specialized list. If you’re a baseball freak, you really aren’t complete without a trip to Cooperstown. There are movies we should all see, and the list

I guess I’m just behind the curve. fikshun e-mails me with this: This is pretty sad. I’ve been seeing ‘professional’ gamers getting money for a few years now, but this is the first serious contract I’ve seen. The xbox 360 allows for an unprecedented level of spectator gaming (you can just sit and watch others from all over the world

Your fairy godmother shows up, whips out the magic wand, and instantly transports you back to your 16th birthday, telling you that you get to live your youth all over again. But before she hits the execute button, she asks you a question: Quick – do you want to know everything you know now, or know precisely what you did

Anybody besides me notice that the warhead Kim Jong Il is threatening to launch is powered by “No Dong” missiles? If I were a tin-horn despot I could come up with something better than that. (Story.)

It had to be said.

Some thoughts on England’s victory over Paraguay: 1: England is lucky. Paraguay didn’t mount much of a challenge, but neither did Sven’s boys. 2: England looked less like a team than it did 11 individual superstars. There was no connection at all, despite the fact that they have all kinds of real creators on the pitch. 3: Peter Crouch (pictured

Well, the World Cup begins today. Been waiting on this for a long time. A few stray thoughts: 1: The US is healthy and talented, although nowhere near as good as their FIFA world ranking suggests they are. I don’t think. They’re going to need to be that good, though, because they’re in the same group with two of the

I would have posted this a couple weeks back, but unfortunately I was blind. Thanks so much to jentifred for passing it along. I’m trying to think of an appropriate way of repaying her. Anyway, you remember the artist who did the sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth doggie-style on a bearskin rug? Uh-huh. I saw the story and image

The recently graduated seniors at Hamilton College were fortunate to have as their baccalaureate speaker one of America’s most intelligent, thoughtful men, Bill Moyers. I won’t even try to excerpt or summarize his address. I will only say it’s one of those things I felt grateful to have read. If only people like Moyers were the rule of American journalism

Hmmm, WWJD about this. I wonder.