Thursday, April 19, 2012

Telezeen.com

Telezeen.com is using a unique user interface to reinvent television into something better.
Broadcast television is the greatest wasted opportunity in civilization and Telezeen.com wants to change that.
First up will be content for a new alternative food channel.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Back Again in 2010

Well it has been an interesting year. But... I didn't blog much about it.

Perhaps that is because it is traumatic these days to be an entrepreneur in the US trying to start something new. Every client expectation is that one has the deep pockets of ATT or IBM combined together with the prevailing business world attitude that no bank is ever going to finance a small start-up business ever again for a person of modest means who needs to generate an income from within the business.This makes for a rotten economy of depressed and sad used-up people who dreams are shattered by the limitations of their net worth. Meanwhile, taxes keep going up to finance the plush retirements of union workers whose tastes are focused on the low end of life's pleasures. Jobs? What jobs? The American consumer is hiding out.

My last post here was over a year ago. I must have decided about then that I needed to start thinking about a new type of business, one which involved media convergence. So. that is what I am doing now. Working out an internet business based in Manhattan that expands upon what I have learned in the past five years as an importer of Made in Italy artisan foods for the Mediterranean Diet. It is all a fantasy-the media. Yet we lose ourselves in it to hide our pain.

Just like The Great Depression, The Great Recession is hard to live through so many volunteer to fight in distant lands to give themselves a purpose in life. Our War economy is what keeps the country going. But nobody wants to admit this so we delude ourselves into thinking that our War is doing GOOD things in the world. Though deep in our hearts we know that this cannot be true.

I will build a network to show content to people who want to escape via their televisions and computers. It will be fun for me. Let there be light and art and music and film. And laughter...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Monday, April 6, 2009

Blooming Hill Organic Farm Springs to Life

Noel and I were over at Blooming Hill on Saturday with Max before going out to walk Minuet on Poet's Walk Park overlooking the Hudson River just north of Rhinecliff. We loaded the car with branches of Pussywillow, beautiful organic lettuce, potatoes for a Sunday brunch fritatta, garlic of course, parsnips for roasting, an organic grapefruit or two, and so on. The farmstore was hopping-filled with people having a Saturday morning brunch and a shop: the place just comes to life when it gets filled up. I purchased some seed packets of sweetpeas to scatter and green beans to grow. There was a Balthazar baguette and sticky pecan bun with coffee before we set off. Farmer Guy Jones was in attendence to say hello and... Yes! we will be bringing in some CampoBelloDoro next week.

Saturday was a stormy day outside but not cold. The wind was blowing dramatic gray clouds over the Catskill foothills as we walked the path down to the Hudson Riverside, it was almost like walking the Scottish moors only in New York state. Poets Walk was certainly poetic on Sunday in its early spring grayness with a few buds of forsythia.

For dinner, a stop at The Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, but we didn't eat. Because one must make reservations. But we gawked.

Later on, when we arrived home, there was a chicken assada for the grill with an organic Blooming Hill salad. CampoBelloDoro vinagrette with organic garlic and CampoBelloDoro Balsamic of Modena, a glass of red, and a desert of Organic Apples crisp a la mode which didn't get made or eaten. There's always tomorrow.

Italyville.com

Nice blog about Italy.