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Garth Brooks Freddie Krueger? So, I was watching a Jay Leno clip on YouTube where Garth Brooks and Kiss sing HARD LUCK WOMAN live…and I had to pause the video for a quick bathroom break. Somewhere around 1:20 – 1:40 in the clip. The thumbnail there to the left is what I got, and bless me if I didn’t burst out laughing because I could sooo see the Nightmare On Elm Street lord of bad dreams himself in there: Freddie [...]

Depending on how you look at it, that’s not a terribly long time — or it’s half of forever. For me, the time period is significant because if all things remain the same as they are today, this is exactly how long it’s going to be before our mortgage is paid off and we’ll once again own our house and land free and clear. I don’t know about the rest of the family, but I’m feeling somewhere between euphoric and [...]

How strange have been the turn of event over the past two days. First, I attempt to help a fellow marketer who knows as much as I do (fat lot of good that does) and end up hindering him (with goofy gab) in a race to get a product ready so he can actually feed himself something nice (like a steak) instead of the Ramen diet he’s been on for the past two weeks. Next, a fellow marketer sends a [...]

Tonight I’m in a bit of a “romancey, writerly mood,” so I am listening to ENYA’s Only Time to take my thoughts back to a period of time in which I have never been but can vividly imagine when the melody is right. I’m listening to MOTLEY CRUE’s Too Young To Fall In Love for a bit of action-driven inspiration. WITHIN TEMPTATION’s Say My Name is in the list as well, for drift-back (like Enya above). It helps me invision setting and [...]

“Oh, heavens to Mercatroid,” as my mom would say. You want ME to discuss business success? Great. Um… Copy. Paste in previous “How To Succeed” articles. Okay, so I’m being a bit silly here, but that’s okay. The thing is, the more of these success articles I write, the more tickled I get because it seems I am more or less repeating myself. And no, I’m not mentioning this here so you will think I have nothing new to write [...]