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As a huge fan, this test could not have regurgitated a better compliment. And here I always thought I wrote like Faulkner… I write like Chuck Palahniuk I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Darth Vader, the mythical character featured prominently in six separate Star Wars flicks, has an awful lot of “street cred” in today’s popular culture.  The American Film Institute ranked the mysterious and dark figure as the third greatest villain in cinematic history.  Quotations and parodies of his bad-assery abound.  Heck, I even follow the Sith [...]

As another light snow fell during my morning commute, I was taken by how quiet, tranquil, and stunning my fair adopted neighborhood of Douglaston felt.  So, I whipped out my trusty iPhone to take a few images in commemoration.

Arriving soon, courtesy of the municipal government of the City of New York: the “official” NYC condom, in a special limited designer edition! After assessing hundreds of possible package designs for a special limited-edition NYC Condom, a panel of judges has selected five finalists. The Health Department has received nearly 600 entries since December 15, [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, “House, MD” could be my favorite television show of all time.  The combination of pithy, sarcastic humor, witty banter, and grave seriousness match my own twisted personality nearly perfectly, and I can easily watch each episode time and again, one after another, without even remotely suffering from boredom or [...]

(A post in which I “mash-up” my two favorite topics: politics and association management…and in the interest of full disclosure, this is NOT about anything happening at my own association, just one of those random things that can come only to me while reading a wide array of blogs related to both news and my [...]

…but I think “Rabbit of Seville” is so much funnier and more brilliant. The best cartoon of all time. Rabbit of Seville, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (1950) @ Yahoo! Video

A post in two parts: I remain forever amazed at how little the politically devout actually know about marketing and messaging their platforms to the larger masses.  Without question, politics inspires a certain form of relentless passion in engaged individuals, but that passion often creates a sort of “mandatory call to action: you must agree [...]

I am always amazed by the incredible array of information about the history of humanity that scientists, archaeologists, and other highly trained professionals are able to pull from simple artifacts and treasures long ago buried by the sands of time.  Learning about where we came from is so integral to the knowledge of who we [...]

Content may be king, but some eye-popping aesthetics (otherwise known as “design” in the business) always help to set the mood and get a user primed and ready to take action.  This happens everywhere: on the Web, when you enter the subway, or even when you watch the Boob Tube. That’s why I thoroughly enjoyed [...]

In the future, under the oppressive dictatorial regime of President for Life Barack Hussein Obama, we will all be forced in some way or another to wear a personal “mark” indicating our collective devotion to the teachings of our Left-Leaning Master. One way we can do that in style? Growing jewelry, an ironic and inspired [...]