I am in the throes of nostalgia for the British music I was listening to from 1995 - 2000. YouTube is coming in very handy for this. (It is much less handy for the parallel nostalgia I am experiencing, for the country music I was listening to from 1992 - 2000. Don’t ask.)
This Chemical […]
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If I’m talking like a hippie, you know this is serious.
Walking home at around 10.15 after a really great dinner with friends at Palomino on Friday night, it could not escape my notice that downtown was buzzing. (No, I wasn’t on anything!) There were lots of people soaking up the light show on Fountain Square, […]
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I cannot help but celebrate the demise of this evil piece of garbage. I wish I could be in Miami to party with the exiles escapees this weekend.
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Barns in Lebanon
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I snapped this picture with my BlackBerry on the way home this afternoon. I love, love, love Ohio farmland (though I don’t think this photograph does it justice at all, to put it mildly).
I flew into Columbus from Philadelphia last night, and the smell of cut grass around Port […]
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I am home and so happy to be back in Cincy! This place is a sight for sore eyes. Even the heat is kinda nice after the cold, wet, gloomy time I had in London (though I enjoyed that dreariness while I was there).
Here’s a question for you:
Imagine a very big, burly man ‘accidentally’ […]
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I am leaving for Philadelphia soon. I will be back in Cincinnati and ready to communicate with the rest of the world on Friday. You can reach me on my US cell phone and email as of Wednesday afternoon. To make up for the absence of my tantrums and navel-gazing, check this out - another […]
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This, by theaudience, was one of my favorite records to put on repeat when I first moved to the UK. I can’t understand why there aren’t any better clips of it on YouTube. Seriously, this song stands the test of time:
Look at how young and unsure of herself Sophie Ellis-Bextor was! Ah, bless. She is […]
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How can you have Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) and John Chambers (Cisco) on stage for a live interview - at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, of all places - and NOT ask a single damn question about their companies’ behavior in China?
So much for hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners (no pun intended, as the situation in China is not […]
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Hillary Johnson wonders if Web 2.0 is feminine (which may explain why the friends complaining to me about how they “don’t see the point” of Facebook, Twitter, et al are all men):
There’s something about social networking that is decidedly feminine, I think. That it’s reticular v. heirarchical? I think of estrogen as relational, and […]
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I saw someone who looked exactly like him earlier tonight, jogging in Hyde Park (just across from the Dorchester and Grosvenor House, along Park Lane). If he’s in London, might this mean we’re closer to knowing for sure who’s going to be the carrier for the iPhone in the UK? (I tried to verify Jobs’ […]
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This week, I was informed by someone I highly respect and admire - someone I did not know was even reading my blatherings here - that my writing about addiction had struck a chord and led to some degree of change in that person’s life. I was, as they say in Britain, gobsmacked.
It sounds […]
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I’m really excited about the speaker we’ve nabbed for the next Cincinnati Salon, which will be held at Park + Vine on August 30. All details are here - and please note the slight time change from previous salons, and the fact that you can win free, cool stuff!
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After noting the high level of demand for the return of the Wispa bar from people online, Cadbury is re-introducing the product.
The listening part of the online conversation is one that most companies are not so enthusiastic about, not when they could be talking and SHOUTING about how wonderful they are and how everyone should […]
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Oh, how timely: I was just talking with some friends about this very topic earlier tonight. I was saying to them what India Knight wrote in her column, that
[P]lenty [of women] are so indoctrinated that they try for far too long [to breastfeed] and end up harming their by now malnourished child.
Sadly, I know […]
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