From Showmanship for Magicians, PG 24-25 “From the above, then, we should be able to to begin to cull a list of the often-found integrants in successful and popular entertainment. Most often appearing in our analysis, as shown above, are the certain fundamentals:” Music Rhythm Movement Youth Sex appeal Personality Color Comedy Harmony Romance Sentiment [...]
The Chron.com started a new blog called The List and asked me to guest blog post. My first (and only) post so far is titled: Chron Post: Millennials head under a rock The GI generation, by all accounts, appears to have raised one of the biggest groups of spoiled kids our country has ever seen. [...]
Via David Brown of Spacetaker, I saw this article in the New York Times called The Geography of Buzz, a Study on the Urban Influence of Culture. The methodology of the study itself is quite fascinating – reviewing stock photography taken at parties and plotting them on a map. The overall report is a reinforcement [...]
From the book Guns, Steel, and Germs by Jared Diamond, there are four major geographic deterministic reasons for the disparity and cultural differences between people historically. (Again, a post mostly for my own notes.) Specifically this is a follow up to my post on Yali’s question. From the book: “The striking differences between the long-term [...]
Busy weekend. From the Bill White Social Media Training post on the Schipul blog Bill White Campaigners’ Social Media Training View more presentations from Ed Schipul. We had a super morning this Saturday, meeting with Mayor Bill White, his WONDERFUL wife Andrea White, their staff and a great group of volunteers. The topic was telling [...]
Yali’s famous question from the book Guns, Germs, and Steel: “All of those things must have been on Yali’s mind when, with yet another penetrating glance of his flashing eyes, he asked me, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had [...]