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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Sayonara, Hello Kitty? Not so fast.

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I’m not an especially big fan of Hello Kitty. Sure, it’s cute and a bit quirky. And I do like pink well enough. But enough is enough, an...
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Monday, November 03, 2014

Neiman Marcus Giltz-alog, 2014 Edition

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Well, the weather outside is frightful – a demi-rager with plenty of wind and those gloopy big flakes of no-stick snow – and, while I don’t ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

What I’ll be going out as (and what I hope to get in my bag)

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Of course, I will not actually be going out as anything. And since I won’t be going out as anything, there will be nothing in my bag. Si...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Note to Blake Francis: we don’t need this kind of marketing, and we probably don’t need Need, either

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There once was a marketing day, long, long, ago, when even a pokey, crummy, obscure tech company could get an audience with a tech journalis...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

A shout out to Music Maker. (Let their voices be heard!)

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In this day and age, it’s hard at times not to fall into the trap that equates artistic greatness and talent with financial success. The tra...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Pumpkin rager

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Things have pretty much calmed down, but last week the biggest dealio on the local news was the Pumpkin Fest riots in Keene, New Hampshire. ...
Monday, October 27, 2014

You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Breastaurant (excepting Alice)

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Until I came across an article about Twin Peaks, I had scant awareness of a restaurant category informally referred to as “breastaurants”. ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

I’d walk a mile for a Camel. And you might have to if you worked for RJR.

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I am old enough to remember when most people smoked. My father smoked, as did all of my uncles. My father had stopped smoking for a lo...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Just us chickens. (What the cluck?)

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Well, I took one look at this picture and thought, “Uh oh.” My first thought was that we now know why the 1957 chicken crossed the road....
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Corporate Culture Vulture

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As anyone who’s held a job for more than say, five minutes, can tell you, every workplace has a distinct culture. And finding a place where ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Home of the bean and the cod? Nah. Home of the psychiatric technician.

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I am a complete and utter sucker for lists, rankings, “mosts”, whatevers, that reveal something or other (or maybe even nothing) about a reg...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Sky Rockets (and Diggy) in flight

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In the weeks leading up to his death, my husband came up with a list of places he wanted a bit of his ashes to go, and I’ve been working my ...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

One more reason to avoid taking selfies

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Personally, I don’t actually need another reason to avoid taking selfies. I have plenty enough already. My principal reason is just plain ...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Adulthood 101. (Oh, grow up.)

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Last week, while heading out to dinner with my sisters, we passed a place that my sister Kath – whose town we were in – was hoping was a new...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Restoration Hardware: the gift that keeps on giving

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Over the years, blog topic-wise, I’ve considered Walmart a gift that keeps on giving. And while I haven’t done anything Walmart-ish in a whi...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Hey, Mr. Nadella, I know you really didn’t mean it, but the karma route just plain doesn’t work.

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I read with interest about the brouhaha the new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set off last week: …when he told an audience of tech indust...