Queen. No not Elizabeth, nor Nour.

Queen, as in Freddy Mercury's band. They sang a song called We are The Champions which gets played a lot when some team, be they professional, college or high school wins their respective championship. Obvious.

Annoying.

Why annoying? No, not because the song is 30 years old and it's been played ad infinitum.

Because ...   more »

There are certain buzzwords that seem to pop up in popular vernacular in any given time period. Some buzzwords are advertising hyperbole like "Ultra" or "Mega."

Some are business buzzwords like "paradigm" or "efforting." Some word have been given birth by the internet, like "googling" or "surfing the net."

There are fancier terms for simple existing ones like "sanitation engineer" ...   more »

I was recently at a business dinner at a very nice restaurant in Boston. The occasion was for about 50 people who were involved with the magazine "O at Home" which is Oprah Winfrey's home decorating magazine. I had recently signed a hefty advertising contract ...   more »

Our dog Gogi, a Puli, is almost 13 years old, and for the past 2 years he's been aging rapidly. He's developed arthritis, his vision is poor, and he's pretty much stone deaf at this point. Now if you're not familiar with the breed, Pulis are small Hungarian sheepdogs that you see in the dog shows with dreadlocks that make ...   more »

Well, everybody needs a vacation now and then, and it's been over a month since I last posted. What can I say? We flighty creative-types need to recharge the batteries to get the juices flowing again.

So the horrible realization I came to, upon recently examining blitzblog's site stats, is that I've had more hits in the past month, since ...   more »