Man vs. Emotion

They’re only pants. It’s just a bunch of fabric sewn together to cover off somebody’s legs, butt and crotch in one easy garment – aka pants. It’s no wonder Dockers has to shoot a little higher when it...

Cookies, boobs and the people who love them

The male fascination with breasts is fairly understandable, at least to my mind. When it comes to guys, the triumvirate of awesome almost always includes food, sex and sports. And the female breast is just about...

Being Evil

“Don’t be evil” – that’s the informal corporate motto famously adopted by Google as a way to supposedly self-check their expected dominance in the technological universe. Steve Jobs derided the motto as...

Real Kings: Vanity Fair, Swamp People & Chumlee

I just signed myself up for a subscription to Vanity Fair magazine. Well, um, I only just got my first issue of Vanity Fair. I actually signed up for the subscription during what feels like the Bush administration...

Billionaire Branson: I want to live in Virgin World

Okay, can there be a cooler billionaire in the world than Richard Branson? Can there? It’s crystal clear that good old Uncle Warren (Buffet) has gone senile. First he’s complaining that he doesn’t pay enough...

Diet and exercise are always the answer to a more elastic life

Square FaceI amused by stories about keeping up appearances. Half the time in the past, I felt like keeling over, but I pushed on. Then, my doctor said, “You are a dead man walking.” Whoa. Well seven years...

Ice to Eskimos: Nike plans to make life fun

Ice to Eskimos. Way back when, that was the saying. If you were so good at sales that you could sell anything, you were said to be able to sell “ice to Eskimos.” Now, before I go any further, I do have to...

Starbuck’s Drive Thru’s invade UK

So anti-British, so un-Downton Abbey This is as about as good an idea as Dunk’n Donuts expanding Americans’ waistlines. First, there will be traffic backups if the idea is successful. Then, there will be hot...

Killer Jeans: The Day Teen Rebellion Truly Died

Rebellion used to be so easy. All you had to do was grow your hair long, ride a motorcycle or cuss a lot in public. Maybe get an earring, a tattoo or even just start dressing really dark or slutty. Finding some...

Buy XXX....or else!

I just viewed what could be some of the cheapest, funniest, most overtly skeevy TV commercials ever produced. The objective, physical quality of them is one thing but for me, the truly dirty aspect actually lays...

The BEST advertising idea....EVER!

I’ve got the best advertising idea ever. Really – I do. But before I get to it I have to explain where it came from first. You see, it all started with Facebook. Now, as we are routinely told, Facebook almost...

Jane Marple visits Sandringham estate

Jane Marple stopping by Knock, knock. Door opens at Sandringham. BUTLER: May I ask, who are you and what is your business here? MARPLE: Please inform the Queen that Jane Marple wishes to visit with her at her...