My stay at the Sheraton Ghetto

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So I’m in Miami, speaking at the Mobile Adult Congress. I arrived yesterday, stayed overnight, and then spoke today, heading home tonight, hopefully.
In the middle of all of this, I managed to find the worst Sheraton in the free world.
Now [...]



Mega Ad Age Hit…

This story on Disaboom, out this morning in Advertising Age, simply rocks.
Nice way to start the week.
Well, that and a grilled cheese, bacon, and tomato sandwich on wheat toast from Tasos Restaurant. Or two.



So I get this phone call…

So my mobile phone rings yesterday afternoon, from a restricted number, as I’m walking through CVS to pick up more Ibuprofen for my broken rib.
I answer it, and find myself talking to some woman who claims to be the “head of Profnet,” who tells me that me that I’ve been stealing reporter queries and posting [...]



Holy crap, the pain…

No better way to title the post than that.
As you know, I participate in a ton of high-risk activities. Skydiving, marathoning, you name it. If I can’t potentially die doing it, hell, it’s not a sport. Which makes the damn irony of this so much more annoying.
Last Tuesday, in an effort to get to my [...]



The Rent has finally come due…

It’s late early 1997, and I’ve just left AOL, and moved back to NYC. Living in my parents’ basement, I set out one day to the Nederlander Theatre at 10am, to wait on a freezing cold line to get “poor-student tickets” as they called them, to a new and completely different type of Broadway show [...]