Eddie: Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee?… I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. Slim: You have? Why don’t you bite them back? In the light of recent events, I can’t help but thinking that this exchange between Eddie, played by Walter Brennan, and Slim, played by Lauren Bacall, [...]
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The Lego Epiphany
Posted: January 28, 2012 in Branding, Life et al, Value for ValueTags: can someone please explain, creativity, imagination, Lego
I’ve heard old timers talk about how when they were kids they didn’t have TV to deaden their imaginations. They had radio, and their minds needed to fill in the spaces between the words with a world of their own imagining. I could never really understand their objections. After all, I had TV, but I [...]
What would the 17-year old you think of the you you are now?
Posted: January 11, 2011 in Life et al, pollsI was writing some inner monologue for Max for ” Life In The Whirlwind,” the third book of my teen cyberpunk trilogy, and she was wondering what she’d be like when she got older. Which got me thinking about how we all turn out, compared to what we dreamed we would be. (And my 6-year [...]
