Blue Horseshoe Loves Bloomberg

By rickColosimo / July 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Blue Horseshoe Loves Bloomberg

I’m impressed by the restraint over at Bloomberg. Justin Bachman wrote this entire article about tracking private jets to unearth pending deals, and no one mentioned Bud Fox. If you can’t place the title of this post, here’s your hint. And shame on you; I’m going to re-watch it tonight. Little-known bonus fact: the incomparable…

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Explaining Poems

By rickColosimo / November 16, 2012 / Comments Off on Explaining Poems

This is truly one of my favorite quotes: I can explain all the poems that ever were invented — and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.  Humpty Dumpty

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You might be hard to live with if ….

By rickColosimo / March 4, 2011 / Comments Off on You might be hard to live with if ….

Two standard deviations above asshole is ‘brilliant.’ -RJC I forgot how I got onto this topic with my friend Tom, but it made sense at the time. Promise.

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Learn by expressing yourself

By rickColosimo / December 30, 2010 / Comments Off on Learn by expressing yourself

It is certainly true that what a person is determines how he writes or speaks. But the converse is also true, at least in part. In the struggle to give clear and natural and forceful and sometimes beautiful expression to one’s experience, one becomes a more honest and genuine and decisive and imaginative person. Ellsworth…

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