Eleven Things Frowned Upon in Corporate Meetings
Posted on December 16, 2009 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
Create-Your-Own-Territory Syndrome – making a barrier around yourself by spreading your stuff all over the conference table.
Forgetting to mute on a conference call, and having others hear your dog barking, your kid banging blocks together, or the construction guy drilling in the background.
Asking “Do you want that leader to be photographed in a Tuxedo or a Clown Suit?” (Doesn’t get a laugh; I tried it.)
Admitting “I’m only here for the free snacks.”
Asking “What do all of these acronyms stand for, again?”
The Power of Tape, a Meandering Rant from TSF2
Posted on December 5, 2009 | By Patty Pino | 2 Comments
When we were kids, it was all about the tape. The shift of melody and voices from vinyl to magnetic-coated plastic took rhythm and word from inside to outside.
Tape gave us freedom. No longer were we limited to music on record players in badly-paneled living rooms, plaid decorated bed rooms, or from the all-too-moist carpeted rec rooms that once were called basements.
Tape liberated us from just listening to the radio. Now, we could pick music on the go. We brought our collective groove to the streets…
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(Just) Eleven (of the many) Things Waitpeople Hate About You
Posted on November 30, 2009 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
When she has to repeat the salad dressing choices for the fourth time, because you didn’t listen to her when she said them the first time for the person sitting on your right, the second time for the person sitting across from you, and the third time for the person who is sitting immediately to your left.
When you’re the last party in the restaurant, they’ve been cleaning up for an hour around you, and you have the nerve to order a cappuccino.
When you’re Michael Bolton and you don’t like anything on the menu and you want pasta with none of the sauces the restaurant offers – oh, and it is a SEAFOOD restaurant, by the way, Bolton… Read more
Dust on the Ceiling, a Meandering Rant from TSF0
Posted on November 26, 2009 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
So, did you ever have one of those days where you wake up and you don’t know what to do with yourself so you just lay in bed and stare up and think about how dust gets trapped on the ceiling, of all places, and how it is probably falling on you while you sleep and maybe that is why your hair is so dry and you flip on your computer-radio-TV and witness the same old blather-blather about pop star addictions, and lying politicians… Read more
Eleven Things That We Could Live Without
Posted on September 24, 2009 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
Stale Candy, stale Bread-products served to us in a restaurant, and stale Personalities.
That weird, sour smell that pervades your laundry, when you forget to put it in the dryer.
Sequined clothing on anyone over 25, including those in the professions of dance, theatre, dance theatre, or Cirque du Soleil.
