Packaging

02002-10-10 | Uncategorized

I am starting to order more on the internet than I am buying in stores around Santa Fe. Why you ask? Well, I find that most store clerks don’t seem to know much about the products they are selling these days…so I might as well order it online with the satisfaction of NOT having to listen to terrible store music….

Cardboard boxes accumulate in the garage. Once every two weeks I can cut up the cardboard and drop it off for recycling.
Rethinking packaging:
What if instead of using a cardboard box the store would use more permanent materials? Aluminum? Plastic?
What if we return the packaging to the store we bought from and the store charges for the return trip of the empty box?
What if each shopper can buy a certain assortment of re-useable boxes from each store they are buying from?

Hm, I think none of the above ideas represents a good solution, but there must be a solution out there….

Culture Court: Musical Poet

02002-10-06 | Uncategorized

In a recent review of “In the Arms of Love” on www.culturecourt.com – what a great name for a web site – the critic called me a musical poet. What a wonderful compliment. I would always and forever rather be a poet than a novelist, even though the novelist has to have such a great understanding of the language, a grasp of the storytelling techniques that make a novel so great.
The poet just has to get the emotion across…whether he uses one word or a thousand, while the novelist has to worry about plot and characters.

Salon.com: Broadcast Radio

02002-10-01 | Uncategorized

Have you wondered about what has happened to Broadcast Radio over the last decade? Why less and less music gets repeated more and more often? Why radio just does not surprise you anymore?
Well, this piece should explain a few things to you.