Posts filed as John’s Freak Show of Thought

As a kid I read lots of MAD magazines and the backpage fold-in was always something I looked forward to doing. Can’t say I understood everything contained in the fold-in … it was just fun for a curious kid to

After my Eureka! moment about GIVING PERFORMANCES and not simply delivering presentations, I decided to learn a little more about the craft of stand-up comedy. (FYI, I’ve already learned some lessons from Improv comedy.) As I do with most any

[Updated: Dec. 24] Lately I’ve become too comfortable delivering presentations. My fall calendar was quite busy with gigs in big cities, small cities, and international places. And feedback from both attendees and conference organizers has all been very positive. But

While reviewing some family history, notably the early death of my Father’s Father, I was struck with how Twitter today was a Telegram yesterday. Think about it. With Twitter you are limited to 140 characters. With Telegrams from the bygone

We began with 64 interesting marketing-related blogs in an NCAA March Madness-style tournament. Using the Gladwellian thin-slicing approach, I parsed the list from 64 to 32 to 16 to 8 and then to a Final Four. (It should be noted,

Have you heard about the just-published book, THE ENLIGHTENED BRACKETOLOGIST: The Final Four of Everything? It’s a fun read where the authors have mocked-up NCAA March Madness-style brackets as a systematic way for “…parsing people, places and things to determine

Gadget geeks get their kicks unboxing the latest gizmos. (Seriously, people are doing this.) So … watch as this business geek, me, gets his kicks unboxing the redesigned Wall Street Journal. RSS Readers … click here to watch the video.

Okay. I’m a sucker for anything related to old school TV Game Shows. Name practically any Game Show from the 70s & 80s and I can ramble on-and-on about the hosts, celebrity guests, and game play. (Yeah, I know all

Paul Williams, of the Idea Sandbox, recently shared his impressions of Coke BlaK, a coffee infused cola. He also shared an amusing story of when we cracked open and tasted a long-expired coffee soda beverage called Mazagran. Mazagran? In 1994,