Stay In The RoomI wanted to share an excellent bit from one of my favorite pint-sized books of powerful inspiration – The Pocket Muse.—I once heard a college student in Waterville, Maine ask visiting writer Ron Carlson how one knows if one is really a writer. Ever the showman, Carlson delivered an entertaining riff about […]
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An Idea’s Time That Has Finally Come…AgainAs a charter member of BrightIdea.com, I missed it dreadfully when it was basically shuttered and shut down a few years ago as a result of misuse by an influx of nasty new members on a quest to take advantage of the site’s ‘penny-per-point’ reward system for bright ideas.In […]
Are You Bolting the Door of Opportunity?
It seems to be the nature of opportunity to avoid negative people. These Negative Nancys and Negative Neds rant and rave that nothing comes their way. While they wander from person to person bemoaning their lot in life and wishing they could catch a break like that lucky so-and-so who sits in the next cubicle […]
BRAINSTORMING GETS BANNED IN IRELAND!But how about a nice, refreshing, “Thought Shower” instead?The Observer reports officials in Belfast have added “brainstorming” to their list of banned words, for fear it will prove perjorative to people with epilepsy, brain tumors, or other mental maladies. The only proper response?A limerick, of course!Suffering from insurmountable boredom,The Irish go […]
New Quantum Model Says Impossible to Alter Time StreamHave these guys never watched an episode of Quantum Leap? And what about all those Back To The Future movies? Even Bill and Ted seem to have a more excellent grasp of how bogus it would be to mess with the time/space continuum.I dunno — I think […]
Lies, Damn Lies,and Marketing Liars I’ve really enjoyed reading Seth Godin’s new book “All Marketers Are Liars” and his take on the marketing lies that help build brands and sell products — but what about the lies companies and industries tell themselves in order to ‘duck and cover’ (Talk about a lie! Duck-and-cover is going […]
The Y-Files : Episode 1 As in, “Y” didn’t I think of that… Here’s one of those smack-your-forehead-it-seems-so-obvious ideas. From KonoPizza in Italy (naturally!) the pizza slice meets the ice cream cone — and creates the latest fast food craze. The cones are filled with your choice of pizza toppings and cooked for 3-minutes in […]