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Curiously Strong Brand Identity 25 Jul 2007 | 08:32 pm
The other day, I was compelled to pick up a couple tins of the Original Celebrated Altoids, the Curiously Strong peppermints that have been an almost constant fixture in my house since I was a lad. I ...
Guerrilla Sales 8 Jun 2007 | 06:19 pm
It’s been quite a while since my last entry. It’s not that I’ve had nothing to say, though there have been many days when I felt that to be the case. It’s not that I’m really that lazy, or just couldn...
The World’s Best Bread Knife? 3 Mar 2007 | 10:21 pm
It’s a bold claim, but I’ll stand by it. I’ve never been excited by bread knives, thinking them more of a necessary evil than something I’d ever really shout about. But the Shun Kershaw Pure Komachi 8...
Confessions of a Collector 8 Feb 2007 | 12:09 pm
Hello. My name is Greg, and I collect things. This is not, by any stretch of thought, a brag out of vanity, but rather, a simple confession, likely in vain. Collecting has become an addiction. If one ...
The Fireclown 2 Dec 2006 | 10:14 am
Several years ago – could it be over a decade? – I was eating with some friends at one of the local Indian restaurants that I’d become quite fond of. I’d come to know the people there, and there were ...
It’s All Fiction, Anyway… 15 Nov 2006 | 08:18 am
The other day I attended a truly great party. Why the qualifying language? Too many parties lately seem to be little more than a mind-numbing gathering of narcissists with little better to do than try...
The Polling Booth and the Propagandists 8 Nov 2006 | 10:31 am
Today is election day. I couldn’t happier. It’s not that I’m all that excited about the choices, but the daily postbox full of idiot spawned propaganda will finally cease. I realize I could simply ig...
Mind Blowing Chiles 12 Oct 2006 | 07:59 am
“When the results of the heat tests came back I was gobsmacked.” No pun intended, I’m sure. These words were spoken by Mrs. Joy Michaud of Dorset, England, as quoted from an article in the Times OnlIn...
Setting the Bar 27 Sep 2006 | 07:04 am
There’s a hill I’ve been trying to ride up all summer. It’s not a long hill – only a couple hundred meters or so. It starts out gently enough, and gradually becomes steeper, to the point where the gra...
Idiot Lights 16 Sep 2006 | 08:13 am
The dash of my GTi is not unlike the dash of most of today’s cars. It is populated by a limited number of actual instruments, speedometer and tach, and a byzantine array of iconic indicator lights, mo...
