Personal is Political
Advice to Designers and Young Lovers (Pt 2): It doesn’t matter who you thought you were!
A friend shows up here today and tells me that there’s a new trend in “shrink talk”. Recently laid-off Vice Presidents – the upper management crew of America–are talking to their psychiatrists about the meaning (or lack of it) in their lives now that they no longer have a job: What were they doing [...]
Money Can’t Buy You Love: The Problem with Non-Profits
The saddest thing to me about non-profit organizations is that so many have the classic victim mentality. Of course, not the big successful, national ones, but this attitude is pretty common in smaller, local groups. Many don’t get beyond “startup” mode because of it.
When most people think of non-profit, they think of stuff that’s free, [...]
9/11 and Another Short Attention Span Tragedy:
I spent some time yesterday listening to all the buzz around Charlie Sheen, his 20 questions to the president about 9/11, and all the misunderstanding and anger this seemed to create for the sleeping masses and the controlled media.
I don’t watch “Two and a Half Men” but it’s rare for any celebrity to care about [...]
Digital Television, Embroidered Kittens and The Second Coming
I doubt that any of you reading this are not digitally hooked up yet, meaning your TV watching is either digital or you’re not watching TV, right? There’s NOTHING ON TV unless you get Cable or Satellite, (or have the converter, or watch on your computer)….right? Wrong!
You don’t need digital TV to be saved! There are three [...]
From Texting to Telepathy in 8 Easy Steps
So I have this new theory that text messaging will lead to a global need for mental telepathy. The way I see it, abbreviating words and sentences as a normal way to communicate will lead to abbreviating entire paragraphs until eventually we won’t have to “write” anything at all. (I created a chart/comic strip that [...]