we leave this morning for our annual agency-wide retreat to beautiful harriet, arkansas at the shepherd of the ozarks retreat center. i wanted in on some of the action over at jim’s blog, but i was too beat (and pressed for time) to get it together. i’m interested to see how this thing [...]

dont think i have some kind of french fetish all of a sudden, but the other day when i posted about the “paris syndrome” article, it reminded me of something i ran across back in 1995. some (or many) of you might remember this, but surprisingly enough, almost no one i’ve told or asked has [...]

news item: “Paris Syndrome” leaves tourists in shock
at first i figured well, while the french can behave rather idiotically at times, surely nobody’s shocked anymore. but then i read the article, and it seems “paris syndrome” has a particularly adverse effect on the japanese. seems their culture is so foreign to that of the [...]

news item: massachusetts elementary school bans tag
can duck duck goose be far behind? are these people for real? kids have played tag, touch football, and any number of other “unsupervised chase games” since the beginning of time… give or take a few millenia. people have become afraid of their own shadows anymore. i hate to [...]

i’ve had my eye on all the construction at mcdonalds for awhile now, and i pretty much have everything figured out except those steel beams they stuck in the ground right in front that dont appear to have anything to do with anything.
i bet jeff noble has the scoop on this, but anybody that knows, [...]