• C'est moi

    VP of Marketing & Communications for Rackup, but nothing here reflects what my employer or colleagues think. In fact, they probably think it's all cray-cray.

    Jackie Danicki
  • Articles of note

Men who need to stop it: part I

Guys who are cheesy towards their partner in public REALLY need to stop it. Exhibit A, Jenna Elfman’s husband. Okay, they’re Scientologists, so he’s obviously starting out a bit soft in the head, but there is no way I can fully describe just how unattractive this kind of behaviour is. You may as well be […]

Yeah, it really is that simple

These quotations, from the comments on this post, pretty well encapsulate my worldview:
Either people own themselves, their labor, and their fruits, to do with and dispose of as they will, or they don’t. If the community owns what I make and what I do, then I don’t own my own actions.
It’s that simple: do you […]

The Arctic Monkeys of retail

If this New York Times profile is anything to go by, Whole Foods is getting to be like that formerly obscure band that you liked until they had the audacity to score a number one.
I love Whole Foods, probably more than I should, in part because it’s so much better than anything we have […]

Angels and freaks

LA continues to be grand; it’s nice to go through my normal work routine - the same stuff I’d be doing if I wasn’t on-site with a client - while also getting to experiment with recipes and subject Cathy to the results. The big food success of yesterday was this Native American cornmeal pudding - […]

Excellent dating/love/like/life advice

I agree 100 per cent with everything Gwen says here.

A welcome change

My new flat

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

I’ve been waiting an agonising couple of weeks to find out whether this deal was actually going to happen or not, but I found out today that it is, and I couldn’t be more relieved or elated: I’m moving back to America, on at least a part-time basis, for at […]

Tipping

Interesting discussion on how much to tip in restaurants, here at Amy’s.
Some people say that, even if the service is crappy, you should tip no less than 20% because “waitressing is hard”. I say that if the service is crappy, you should tip precisely the amount that the service was worth to you. I’m […]