Most circles of thought look at certain habits as being minimal.  Especially the practitioners feel most adamant about habitual usage being "harmless", can never hurt you, or have any negative side effects.  Something that comes from the ground has none of the addictive qualities of pharma...

Every now and then I surprise myself by being surprised. I was really taken aback for a moment when I read the story about a lesbian married couple who are both pregnant. At the same time. And yet, why shouldn’t they be was my immediate reaction after my surprise. Of course there is absolutely...

According to copywriting legend Eugene Schwartz, a headline’s main job isn’t to sell; it’s to gain the readers attention and compel them to read the ad.  And this is sound advice, but the Internet also requires one other thing in today’s web 2.0 copy world… Step 1. Scent: Web copy add...

From David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest:He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering. And the ...

I’ve been a fan of The Cos since I was a child. I used to stay up late listening to the Sunday Night Funnies on CHUM FM. George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Cheech and Chong, Bob Newhart, Eddie Murphy, Monty Python, The Frantics and Richard Pryor were the rock stars of my youth. But none had a greater...

   With the following installment in said adventures...    So today I finished getting all the tiles (metal and ceramic) off the walls.  Then it was on to cutting off some wall board, which is actually plaster/cement stuff.  I totally wore down the blade on my reci...

   So, I haven't posted because I've been putting off the work in the bathroom - and then doing the Cantab (yesterday) and then finally getting down to the dirty business (today).     I knew going in that this could get ugly.  I had an inkling based on the material...

I recently attended a network event as a panelist on the subject of social media. Before the panel discussion part of the evening began, a group of about one hundred attendees who work in PR and/or own a business, were mixing and mingling in the pre-show drinks and nibbles party. I was standing in a...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”  - James Baldwin During certain months of the year, I can tell you right where you’ll find me every Tuesday night: Most of my family and I will be enjoying healthy snacks, sitting in front...

Image courtesy of re-ality Nothing can be done without energy. A car without fuel wouldn’t get you to where you want to go because there isn’t any energy to power the engine that moves the car. If there are two highly talented people with the same level of ability but one of them is lack...