Serial Box Crime

The Big Apple Awards is an event put together by the International Special Events Society (ISES) to recognize outstanding achievements in the New York metro marketplace.  This past Spring saw the 7th anual awards ceremony which included categories such as Best Photographic Image, Best “Green Initiative”, Best Non Profit Event and Best Corporate Event.
One notable speaker this year was Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, US News & World Report and the Atlantic Monthly and while these big business giants always have insightful things to say its …

Yay for hypocrisy in the media, what else is new?  NOW Magazine, a free local Toronto newspaper knows all about that.  Flipping through a dirty used copy of this weeks edition while riding the subway home tonight I came across the section for Letters to the Editor and found something very amusing.  This gentleman writes,
On page 35 of your pride issue, you continue your longstanding, accurate warning of Wal-Mart’s deadly effect on every neighbourhood, community, minimum-wage law and cheap-labour country it touches (NOW, June 26-July 2).  But then on page …

Who loves the sound of a sweet soft female voice…  talking about balasts and submarines, torpedos and deep water impact?  Did that get you?  I’m not much of a listner never really have been I’m more of a visual type of guy.  I take a book with me every day to read while I head to work and my television is always on whether the volume is up or down.  I also love my sleep but unfortunately I can’t watch tv or read a book when I’m trying to sleep.  …

I’ll start this off with a quote from one of my favourite 80’s movies of all time.
Everything is different, but the same… things are more moderner than before… bigger, and yet smaller… it’s computers… San Dimas High School football rules.
Delivered flawlessly by Ox in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure kind of sums up the way I feel.  Every year something happens that makes me feel that much older whether it’s a night out with the boys reminicing about old times or watching old movies to bring back my teen years …