The name of the American corporate game is consolidation. Each retail behemoth was an erstwhile tiny regional player which later made it big.

If the American centre really wanted to walk into a dinghy ill lit mom n pop store they would have done so.

We're asked to lament the death of local flavour. Local flavour defined by hard of hearing grandpas ( Read more... )

Some train journeys begin with trepidation, others with hope, yet others with an intense implacable desire to reach the other end ( Read more... )

Bill Murray's character in 'broken flowers' is on a mission to atone for his sins. He's been in numerous relationships - none long enough to last the distance.

In my introspective moments, I've often thought about Murray in this movie. More so than the broken flowers strewn behind him - he is a broken flower. He looks shabby. His thoughts are of ( Read more... )

I was looking through someone's photostream on Flickr and saw a very vulnerable looking woman caught in mid twirl rearranging her hair with a phototag saying 'He took it without giving a warning' ( not quoted verbatim ) and it made me think about the nature of relationships ( Read more... )

Here is a thought -

Many of us work for corporations which have facebooks on the intranet. If you need to find someones' phone number then all you do I look up the name on the intranet which gives you all pertinent information including the photograph. So many times I form a quick opinion about a person just by looking at the photograph. I ( Read more... )

Ocular dilation - These will the posts which deal with my attempts to open my eyes to the world around me.
Thought contractions - Those blah, bleak moments when I just want to shrivel up and go to sleep
Rebirth pangs - There will be times when i'll be asked to reconsider my erstwhile notions.
Orgasm - Those blah, bright moments of rapture and ( Read more... )