The Oversoul on Crack: Burning Man is August 27 to September 3. Peace, Love, Absurdity, Art.
Burning Man Festival, September 2, 2011: Black Rock Desert, Nevada (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
Pippa Middleton Puts the Big Hurt on Chanel Designer Karl Lagerfeld’s Vision.
According to the New York Daily News, and several other sources, the head designer at Chanel doesn’t like Pippa Middleton’s face. See […]
Going Home
Working Class Hero: Alvin Lee still can and will snake your girl away.
Francine McKenna in the Financial Times: Sarbanes-Oxley? “It has failed”.
Happy Tenth Birthday–and R.I.P.–Sarbanes-Oxley. Publicly-traded companies–their boards, officers, CFOs, lawyers and CPAs–are not likely to forget (1) Enron, the once-admired $100 billion […]
Dykema’s Alex Craigie: “A Brilliant Suggestion 60 Days Before Trial”.
See it here by Los Angeles-based Alex Craigie of Detroit mainstay Dykema. It’s at his At Counsel Table, correctly subtitled “The Craft […]
My Life Online.
I don’t have one. A “life online”. A Life on the Internet, I mean. I don’t want one, either. For me, the […]
Just a Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Eagle Scouts? Huxley? Hemingway? Let’s hear from the Real Men.
Keith Relf Steve Winwood
On The Great Eagle Scout Backlash: Two Great Posts.
I am an Eagle Scout. Generally, and consistently, I have been enormously proud of that. For example, I “rank” it above my […]
On The Great Eagle Scout Backlash: Two Great Posts.
I am an Eagle Scout. Generally, and consistently, I have been enormously proud of that. For examples, I “rank” it above my […]
Happy Birthday, Mr. Huxley.
Many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving […]
Hull McGuire is short-handed this week.
“Ben, bring me everyone.”
“Every employer “˜discriminates’. If they didn’t, I’d be working as a Chippendales dancer.”
While much of it will be old hat for American business people (and their lawyers) on the subject of employment discrimination, do […]
Reds in Paris.
Visit Richard Nahem’s Eye Prefer Paris where two summers ago Nahem featured photos by his Yank friend Virginia Jones in “Paris Rouge“. […]
Damn. Think I’m Turning Democrat again. I really think so.
I still got my laissez faire mojo working–and it’s not even working on me. This time it’s not a weak and a […]
Two Bunch Palms: Peace, Love, Hot Water, Lithium.
Certainly all about its clients, Two Bunch Palms is an older and vaguely Bohemian resort and spa in Desert Hot Springs, California […]
WSJ: The Customer as God? Really? Tell us more, Doc.
In Saturday’s WSJ see “The Customer as a God“, the new gospel according to Harvard-based David “Doc” Searls, and based on his […]
The Real “New Normal”? It’s Complexity, Ambiguity, Toil & Elegance. Get used to it.
It’s not what you thought–but it could be even better. The real “new normal” is Complexity, Ambiguity, Toil & Elegance. Learn a […]
At Cross-Culture: The Great French Dream?
See Rebecca Penna’s post “Is there such a thing as the French Dream?” at Richard Lewis’s Cross-Culture. …change is definitely on France’s […]
What About Quality? The Internet, You, Me and SEO.
Me? Color me silly and short-sighted. But I don’t have the first clue about leveraging this blog, my firm, my business or […]
In the Huffington Post: Back from Berlin, Bennet Kelley is All Over Mitt Romney like a Big Dog.
Internet lawyer, Georgetown fan, radio host, network television guest, political commentator, Hull McGuire of counsel, writer columnist and Renaissance man Bennet Kelley […]
In the Huffington Post: Back from Berlin, Tan, Ready & Rested, Bennet Kelley is All Over Mitt Romney.
Internet lawyer, Georgetown fan, radio host, network television guest, political commentator, Hull McGuire of counsel, writer, columnist and Renaissance man Bennet Kelley […]
Yesterday’s USA Today: Gains in the services sector lead “uneven job recovery”. This is news?
The front page USA Today article is far from comprehensive and might have better defined “services” industries–it ignores, for example, the growth […]
223 years ago, was the Marquis de Sade really a player in the storming of The Bastille?
“And the moral of the story is never lean on the weird. Or they will chop your head off. Take my word […]
France’s Tweetgate: New French President Hollande, man of the people, stud, does his first Bastille Day.
French President Francois Hollande today. Photo: Antoine Antoniol. AP: “Hollande oversees 1st Bastille Day as French president; clouded by family feud“. It […]
At Shaun Belding’s Blog: “Lose the Rules.”
Some companies still engage Customers in Service Hell. Canadian consultant Shaun Belding has a new post called “Customer Service Tip: Lose the […]
It’s Thursday. Play Loud, Campers.
Morris, Jay and Silent Bob check back in.