NFL FOOTBALL IS BACK!
I’m watching the 3rd quarter of this year’s opener between the defending champs, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the team with the best regular season record last year, Tennessee Titans. Let me tell you now that I have fallen head over heals for Chris Collinsworth, the replacement for John Madden in the broadcast booth next to Al [...]
The Quarter Bar Baffler
Quarter Bar & Cafe on 20th st and 5ave in Park Slope is a smallish bar with a row of shallow, perpendicular booths along its back wall. I’ve sat in those booths many times enjoying typical bar booth confabs. Since my friend began working as barback, however, I’ve spent more time at the bar.
David Moo, [...]
Where the Internet shines
Will Obama’s silence and the Internet’s furor be the right mix to push Iran in the right direction – that direction not confused with the West?
It’s not business it’s personal
Son of legendary James Caan (the guy that gets shot up at the tollbooth in Godfather Part I) and one of the stars of the Ocean’s 11 trilogy has a book of photographs out. Found this via NotCot.org, you should definitely check that site out. Way better than this one
The Man in White: David Byrne
I didn’t love David Byrne’s show at Prospect Park, part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival, but I did really admire him for it – admire him more for it would be more accurate.
The set list was perfectly crafted, starting with a few songs from the new album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, easing into [...]
On Human Resources
This vintage IBM ad got me thinking about how we thought and think about human resources, human capital. I have already touched on this idea from another angle in my post Right Brained Expressionism where I argue that the discussion about modern art is too academic and ignores the spiritual. In the context of business [...]
Right Brained Expressionism
Modern art is simply a reflection, an imitation, of our worlds. Intellectually there is much more to be said on the subject of modern art. Honestly, I find the intellectual discussion of modern art problematic because it is tailored to a specific demographic. Intellectuals are urban dwellers, college educated, annual income of $50k+, read the [...]