Some clients want results, some clients want miracles. The International Football Advisory Council is definitely in the latter category. This afternoon, I contended with three inches of newly fallen snow to reach the IFAC offices on K Street. That’s enough snow to paralyze Washington DC, because Washington is a city where about sixty percent of… Continue reading Kill One for the Gipper
Category: Society and Trends
Seventeen Will Get You Twenty
Have you ever noticed that peculiar phenomenon, where everything is going great guns and then something steps in to kill the buzz? As you might surmise from the previous post, Friday afternoon I was steaming full speed ahead like Farragut up Mobile Bay, damning torpedoes left and right, doing what I do best. Then, as… Continue reading Seventeen Will Get You Twenty
What’s in a Name?
My email Inbox has been overflowing with epistles concerning my name. Approximately 50 percent of them are from other people who call themselves “Tom Collins.” They present irate demands that I stop using “their” name or else they will sue me, attack my Web site, find my residence and firebomb it, track me down like… Continue reading What’s in a Name?
Requiem for Channel 92
Since I seriously doubt anyone else will, I here duly note the passing of Public Access Channel 92 in Montgomery County, Maryland. It wasn’t around long, and probably suffered from the cable company’s benign neglect – they never, for example, put it in their cable guide channel listings. Nevertheless, Channel 92 offered, I am told,… Continue reading Requiem for Channel 92
Tom Earns a Bottle of Champagne
A trio of ginks from the one of the big DC think tanks had just left. It took me nearly half an hour to convince them to leave because their mission was hopeless – I don’t work for free, no matter how prestigious the client is. As a matter of fact, it seems to me… Continue reading Tom Earns a Bottle of Champagne