Nancy Rommelmann and Amy Alkon just won LA Press Club Awards. And don’t they look good doing so?
They are not just pretty faces and great writers. Nancy and Amy are two people who will drop everything to help me in a time of need (and they have done so more than once). Love and […]
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I wrote Oscar Peterson a five-page letter when I was 15, telling him that I sucked at the piano, and what should I do? The ridiculous thing was that I told him not to tell my mum. I was playing in a local bar at the time. Two decades later, he was holding my babies.
-Diana […]
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I find her last comment, on what she thinks when she sees someone who is hugely fat, rather surprising.
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Brian Micklethwait:
When some new technique of communication is invented or stumbled upon, you should not judge its impact by picking ten uses of it at random, averaging them all out, and saying: Well that’s a load of trivial crap, isn’t it?!? How will “I am just about to make another slice of toast” change […]
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Had a blast Friday night with some visitors - and one recent transplant to New York - from the Queen City. As much as I love New York, London, Paris, et al, my heart will always have a soft spot for the great state of Ohio - and its no-BS women! (One face obscured because […]
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We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
-Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator Source: speech in the Senate, 1833
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This is one of my favorite records of all time, a track from Beth Orton’s Best Bit EP, which I loved when it came out 11 years ago. It’s rather hard to find online (or else I’m just not very good at searching for it), but it’s now on YouTube. This is just beautiful. (No, […]
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From an email I received from Adriana Lukas (and blogged with her kind permission):
I am constantly amazed at the arrogance of companies and business when it comes to judging what users can do, will or won’t do on the web. These are the very same companies that have spent the last few years desperately catching […]
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William Blake:
If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation will pursue him throughout life, and after death shame and confusion are faced to eternity.
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I can’t help but marvel at how the Cincinnati Supper Club took off when I started it in March 2007, and how it continues to go from strength to strength now that Bob and Erin Marie have taken over since I moved. The South African-style braai recently hosted for the 23rd edition of the Supper […]
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Whoever it is, it’s not me, as evidenced by my Webby Awards acceptance speech on behalf of Qik for our Best Use of Mobile Video prize.
In my defense: We were limited to five words and I only got one take. It could have been worse.
PS Not a huge fan of how they’ve rigged the […]
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I can’t separate my existence into halves labeled “work” and “life”. If I had to try to balance what I do all day with some other, unrelated world, I’d go nuts. I’m fortunate enough simply to love what I do at Qik and the people with whom I get to do it. End of story. […]
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I showed up to record my acceptance speech on behalf of Qik (we won the Best Use of Mobile Video award, w00t!), using our five alloted words as best I could: “Thanks to our awesome Qikkers!” Then I had a great time at yet another Webby organization event. They’re 3-for-3 over the past seven months […]
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I haven’t had time to write the kind of post I wanted to put together on this, but I feel compelled to note what a loss the passing of Rajeev Motwani is for entrepreneurship in America. More to the point, it’s a massive loss to a seemingly endless network of technology and start-up enthusiasts who […]
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