Here's my most probable "disease"

Benign Positional Vertigo

Frish's abstract of the research on web: "the most common form of vertigo, goes away in a few days or weeks, and may or may not recur."

I made a referral...

Client needs a 72 page trade show delegate trade book front to back designed and laid out by Friday 8/28.

Roy is one of the three designers I shared with my client.

Client's reaction:  "Roy was an idiot primadonna who likes to chase away work."

From a dating site...Q&A

The one thing Christie is most passionate about:

• Various charities, animals esp.dogs, theater, traveling

                                        and, especially, not reading the question before answering.

Marko Evening - quick video

August 14, 2009

Universal City Walk - free concert -  "Martha and the Motels"

Martha is singing.

Marko is directly in front of Martha, (the guy with the grey Jew-fro under the neon guitar!)

He asked for her pick, and obtained it, to add to his guitar pick collection!

A Marko Evening

Here are the results of a recent Friday Evening with Marko
1. LACMA for jazz event (woman in shorts singing, was very impressive)
2. The Broad Museum for the House Crashing Into House sculpture Take No Pictures
3. A quick run through LACMA<
(Smiling guy is Marko)
4. Out to Universal - Powder was the first group and they did performance art and rocked out
Pink hair, trapeze act and other performance art, really good rock and roll all at once.
5. The second group was a Rock band from the 70s, still playing the odd venue! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_(band)

Overall, a very nice Marko evening, as they go...

Drinking: Less than usual, none actually
Traffic incident: There was none! No traffic that is!!!

Is the recession over, I ask again?

Here's a photo of part of a job I have in the shop at the moment.

You are looking at a few pallet loads of paper, that already has been printed upon, and die cut (but only "die kissed" so the "waste" paper still needs to be removed, during the cutting process, so the sheets are still rectangular).  The tallest stacks are about 5000 sheets apiece, each sheet has 16 final pages when they're cut out.  So, that's 80,000 pages of paper on a pallet.  The job requires about 5 MILLION final pages...that's a lot o' pallets!

This particular job is 44 pages (40 pages plus cover) and there are 11 different versions.

We have already completed 6 versions that were 36 pages plus cover.

In total, we'll be manufacturing about 130,000 of these catalogs...

I love bio-tech firms...

2009's answer to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

http://www.circusnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2447

Great article, and so true...the picture there?  Now, PICTURE A THIRD WOMAN STANDING ON THE UPSIDE DOWN GIRL'S UPPER LEGS...

Powder is the group.  Let's see what I can find in a hurry here:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=242120

Wow, from 3 years ago, and still going strong.  Most muscular woman I've ever seen.  She was ripped, when singing and when performing...

Lumps o' coal

The world and how it's going

Go to this site. http://www.breathingearth.net/  Run your cursor over the map.  Scroll down to learn more.

No other population of anything living, ever in the history of the planet, has had our out of balance birth vs. death ratio.

Is the worst of the recession over??? ... people shopping, tourists gawking...

Maybe the recession is lessening, here are two quick, informal and unofficial indicators.

I live in West Hollywood, "Beverly Hills Adjacent" (some Real Estate Marketer's Dream).  

Experienced two similar incidents today...

INCIDENT ONE: Filled up the car with gas at Olympic and Robertson.

(BTW, this is a really cool looking gas station with fairly inexpensive gas. It is all stainless steel sculptural pillars and roof, keeping the Sun shaded over the highest tech pumps imaginable. They even dispense moist towels and "plantable postcards" (for free) next to the pumps!).

Finished gassing up, I pull onto Robertson, and waited at the red light, facing north. A very large foreign model rather new SUV pulls up along side, and a 30 something woman with designer sunglasses, well quaffed hair and make up, lowered her window and asked: "Where are the shops on Robertson?"

I could see a rather intent heavy set and mustachioed husband driving, and a 5-7 year old daughter in the back...the car dwarfed all of them and I had to look up to speak with her.

I asked, since there are shops all along Robertson after all, "You mean the fancy ones?".

She said, "Yes, the fancy ones!", in a heavy Middle Eastern accent.

"Just about a mile or less ahead" redundantly pointing in the appropriate direction.

She thanked me, the window rose to contain the cool air inside, and they proceeded north when the light changed...I watched the two females disembark a few moments later at the appropriate portion of Robertson...Dad obviously assigned the mission to park the Urban Assault Vehicle.

INCIDENT TWO:

Later in the day, taking my "frisbee walk" (I use Beverly Hills as my Frisbee golf course), I was asked, by two young tourists in a small beat up car, "Where is Rodeo Dr.?"

I let them know it was 5 or so blocks straight ahead, again pointing redundantly in the appropriate direction, and added, "Take a left to get into the craziness".

The male driver laughed out loud, and his female passenger sat back, without a smile.

Got the feeling the visit to Rodeo (that's Row Day Oh, not Row Dee Oh...an entirely different street about 3 miles away, near a Target not a Tiffany's (LOL)) was more her idea than his, and they gave the appearance that they'd have trouble paying for the parking meter on Rodeo, but hey, I felt just like the Boy Scout (without the "god-fearing homophobia") that I am!

It never ceases to astound that strangers are quite comfortable asking me things...regardless of where I am in the world.