Elevator Speech
So there you are…at a conference. It’s all about networking. Remember the earlier A.B.C. blog (A = Always B = Be C = Closing)? Someone initiates conversation (isn’t that nice for once?!), noticed your name tag and asks, “What do you guys do?” What’s your answer? You better come back with something special or ABC […]
Media Portraits: The Messenger
Mandy Rusillo For Mandy Rusillo, the pulsating traffic delivers prospect. The shadow of a pedestrian often means danger. And the snap of a car door opening in front of her can mean suicide. Rusillo, who works as a Chicagoland messenger, is one of the thousands of bicycle messengers in Chicago who navigate the labyrinth of […]
World Portraits: Sultanate of Oman
Here I am, rocked you like a hurricane Here I am, rocked you like a hurricane My body is burning It starts to shout Desire is coming It breaks out loud Lust is in cages Till storm breaks loose Just have to make it With someone I choose The night is calling I have to […]
Airline food horror: roaches, flies, bacteria found in catering kitchens that make most plane meals
If you thought airline food was bad, prepare yourself: it just got a whole lot worse. Inspectors for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered live roaches, dead roach carcasses “too numerous to count”, ants, flies, debris, bacteria, and employees preparing food with their bare hands in numerous catering facilities responsible for preparing a huge […]
World Travels: The Inner Peace of Egypt
People from all walks of life are finding that “mental days” in Egypt are just the passport in improving life perspectives. For some, the search for inner wellness starts in Giza. The chants resonated from deep within the Pharaoh’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza: aaaaaa (a as in ah), eeeeeee (e as in eat), […]
World Travels: England and their Enchanting Nights
Friends on the search for an eatery to rest at after a day of full-on sightseeing Arabian nights, culinary delights and good home cooking surround your taste buds in London. Rain is usually the fastest way to mess up a vacation. In London it’s a way of life. Even in a downpour the locals walk in […]
Modern Family gives iPad some free love
“Modern Family” on ABC Wednesdays is my new MUST SEE. But, for all that love cascading from the father in Modern Family the other night, they should’ve been paid. I came to find out that this episode where the family weirdly bonds together to find daddy a new Apple iPad was free love. Other than […]
The Greatest Maketing Campaign
Fess Parker made the coon cap an all time favorite. To publicize the 1955 film Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (released in Britain in 1956), Walt Disney Productions launched a massive marketing campaign in the UK in order to make the country’s youth “Crockett conscious.” There was already a “Crockett craze” in […]
Change Has Many Companions
When historians get around to 2010, I hope they will say it was the year the era of one-sidedness died. In the U.S., we have a terrible tendency for the quick judgment; a two-second headline read and a glimpse at a juicy sound bite and we have the story. I used to fear that people […]
Burn Notice Chat
Have you ever been to the network up fronts? Luckily I get to attend a few. ABC has a fantastic one at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and the Fox one is gaining steam. Now the cable networks are having them and this is where some of the best interviews and sound bytes come […]
