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I am become Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds. (or, at least, Alex P. Keaton) I heard from Tony Robbins personal assistant: Tony loves the gun, even though he couldn’t use the helmet: apparently, Tony’s head is larger than the motorcycle helmet’s outside diameter. And he’s not using the silver firefighter’s close approach jacket, either. To my…

This is what Dave Barry has to say about Tony Robbins.

This Week’s Theme: Altered States of Consciousness I’m in DC again. Things that happened since last I posted: I met an evangelical preacher in West Chester, and remembered his “thousand yard stare” from my own time working with missions organizations. I saw a number of five-to-eight-year olds hacking at a pinata at a picnic. The…

Attention all Gen-Xers: we’re all busted. Everybody out of the pool. Follow me from ironic hipsterhood to yuppiedom, my friends. Kate and I will show you the way. Of course, if you can’t afford Yoga DVDs or an espresso machine, you could just continue being unabashedly ironic.

All my electronic gadgets give me a veneer of competency: the GPS, for example, can get me to a location faster, sometimes, than someone who — unlike me — can actually find their way out of a paper bag by themselves. And, if my GPS runs out of batteries (like it did yesterday morning), I…

Commando Consulting I’m sitting at a steel picnic table under some pine trees in Herndon, Virginia, about 30 miles west of Washington, DC. I’m on an assignment to a client down here, and DC is easy to reach from Wilmington, which is in turn about a 30-minute drive from my house. Surrounded, as always, by…

Excellent Blog Postings to Check Out. Genevieve’s Blog, with tips on holding a tag sale in Brooklyn. Will Ronco’s Blog, with a blow-by-blow account of his latest triathalon. Kate particularly enjoyed it, as it took her back to her hard-core student athlete days rowing crew for the University of Washington. I particularly enjoyed the hard-core…

The Trinity Loop: Clouds, Cinders, and Plywood Cartoon Characters, Lurking in the Fen I posted the Trinity Loop photos on Ofoto: if you click the link, you can see all the details about Newfoundland’s premier train-themed amusement park!

I went jogging on Sunday afternoon, and discovered a high school marching band competition taking place just around the corner. But I discovered more than that: I discovered a world in microcosm, a world made up of formations in lockstep, feathery shakoes, and polyester uniforms/superhero outfits. I discovered the story of an ancient and mighty…

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Choo, choo! These images are just a sampling of the terrors that await you at the Trinity Loop Family Theme Park in Trinity, Newfoundland. I’m working on putting all my pictures together, but it’s taking a while because I can do only a little…