Excuse the long delay between postings – I’ve been grieving my dad with only brief periods of grooving anything, although one thing that absolutely brightened my day today was getting and listening to Wilco’s latest.
It seems to me on first listen anyway like this is what John Lennon would be writing, singing, playing [...]

from DM:
In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If youare not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day.During that time we regret that [...]

From an article in the Guardian Unlimited:
Coors
Beer maker Coors discovered that its slogan “Turn it Loose” translated into Spanish as “Suffer from Diarrhoea”. The company immediately pulled the advertisements and changed the campaign’s slogan to “Won’t Slow You Down” which it said “better resonated with Spanish-speaking audiences”.
Reebok
In 1996, Reebok named a new women’s tennis shoe [...]

My dad passed away on Saturday, May 5, 2007. This is what I suspect will be one of several eulogies, directed to my kids, my niece and nephew, his grandchildren:
There are so many things I could tell people about your grandfather. So many things that were unique and interesting and special about him, [...]

Ripening, by Wendell Berry
The longer we are together
the larger death grows around us.
How many we know by now
who are dead! We, who were young,
now count the cost of having been.
And yet as we know the dead
we grow familiar with the world.
We, who were young and loved each other
ignorantly, now come to know
each other in love, [...]