I had intended to spend my New Year’s Eve with a fifth of Glenlivet scotch and a handful of Honduran ceegars. But as I’m always reminded, the best laid plans… New Year’s Eve 2017 was spent helping Deb ice her … Continue reading
Category Archives: Money-Making Ideas
Occasionally, you get gut-punched so badly that it takes a good long while to get your wind back. I took a hit last Friday when I learned that my dear, longtime friend Ed Ritchie had died the night before. I … Continue reading
I’m leaving town in a couple’a days for one of my geeky fanboy events (an early screening of the new Tarzan movie on the Warners lot in Burbank, if you really gotta know), and I’m in a good and giving … Continue reading
Yeah, the economy’s pretty sucky. And the nitwits now battling for a seat in the White House don’t know WTF to do about it. Most of ’em say to stay the course — you know, just keep taxing and spending … Continue reading
As you know, on most sunny afternoons — and we seem to be having quite a few here on the central coast lately — I sit in my backyard with a cigar and notepad and either listen to podcasts or … Continue reading
A few days before Christmas, I heard that Jerry Gillies had died. Jerry was 75, and the news was sudden and surprising. You might know Jerry only because I’ve promoted his latest book, Moneylove 3.0, for the last few months. … Continue reading
Shit, you can make money doing almost anything! And by “shit,” I mean that literally. A Facebooker has alerted me that a non-profit company called OpenBiome is paying for stool samples! The samples are needed to create fecal transplant treatments … Continue reading
Ideas come from everywhere. Take popular songs, for instance. Didja know that Paul Simon’s “Mother and Child Reunion” was inspired by a menu item? According to Simon, “I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called … Continue reading
We’re already a week into the new year, so it’s probably time I took a dump on some of your dreams and goals. Especially if you’re of the younger persuasion. Get a load of this… If you aspire to find … Continue reading
Does the economy suck or not? Politicians and their lapdogs in Big Media say one thing. “In the know” economists say something else. And me, I just don’t know. What I do know is that nobody in Washington is “fixing” … Continue reading