Okay, Tyler, I will answer your question as asked: The 2003 translation by Edith Grossman is currently the most popular in English. With his 1605 publishing of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes invented fiction as we know it. In that book, Cervantes pioneered every storytelling device currently used in modern literature. Other than the Bible, it has sold […]

Yet if there’s one thing I’ve learned about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, after years of watching Amazon, it’s that he doesn’t spend a lot of time predicting future possibilities. He is instead consumed with improving the present reality on the ground, especially as seen through a customer’s eyes. The other thing to […]

We were talking about fashion photography, right?

Heh, heh, heh… Last week, the wizard promised to send the first chapter of book two, Poobah Talks Marketing, to everyone who posted a review of book one, Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do It. But then he realized he didn’t have the email addresses. Heh, heh, heh. So I told him I’d but […]

To promote Wizard Academy’s Whiskey Marketing School, Daniel (the sommelier) and Rex (the mooch) have been making a new video each day. They broke the 1,000-subscriber mark on episode 101. By episode 108, they were at 1,500 subscribers. Episode 112 lifted the tally to 2,000 subscribers! A quick glance on YouTube just let me know they’re […]

CHAPTER ONE – A New Decision An old man sat in a chair and looked into an open book. A younger man entered the room. “Poobah, I’ve decided it’s time to start advertising.” “Why?” the old man said, without looking up. “What do you mean, ‘Why?’ I thought you believed in advertising.” “I do. I’m […]

Happy Couples Only, Please Roy and Pennie, along with 18 other couples, are going to buy “My Heart is In Your Hands” for Wizard Academy. And then we’re all going to spend a December weekend together on the campus at Wizard Academy learning from the utterly fascinating Dr. Richard D. Grant how to be even more […]

CHAPTER ONE – A New Decision An old man sat in a chair and looked into an open book. A younger man entered the room. “Poobah, I’ve decided it’s time to start advertising.” “Why?” the old man said, without looking up. “What do you mean, ‘Why?’ I thought you believed in advertising.” “I do. I’m just trying […]

Do you remember Adam Curry from Headbangers Ball during the early days of MTV? He recently partnered up with Gene Naftulyev – one of the cognoscenti of Wizard Academy – to launch “Podcaster Pro,” the audio equivalent of the compact new video “Studio on a Desk” from Sunpop. Here’s a link to the page for Podcaster Pro […]

A steampunk Quixote on a steampunk Rocinante. This Russian postcard by artist Anatoly Kudravcev

Russian postcard – Dreams of Quixote – by artist Tatiana Bobrova

Detail from a 1962 Quixote as Whirlwind pen-an-ink original by Salvador Dali

This is the memo Paul was talking about. – Indy

Sunshine On His Own Roy H. Williams CHAPTER ONE – Green Pastures The two men studied their menus in silence. The waiter approached the table. With an almost imperceptible movement, the fine gentleman shook his head no. The waiter walked away. The younger man said, without looking up, “He died the very next day.” “I […]

Still Life with Beagle, by Rivera

Las Vegas Review Journal- Sadie

Dear Indy, I have been following, reading, digesting, and pondering the Wizard for well over the decade.  I have had the privilege of drinking purple coffee with a rowdy group of dreamers on the campus. I do not consider myself creative in way other than some genetically miswired synapses that occasionally strike a chord like […]

The first cup of coffee hit my lips at the age of 12. It was at our sixth grade mountain camp. We went for three days to explore and understand the Rockies, those massive mountains that rose near where stood our elementary school. Lodge coffee, it wasn’t fit for a cowboy on the range, let […]

This is what Dostoevsky wrote on January 13, 1868, in a letter to his favorite young niece, Sophia Ivanova “There is only one positively beautiful person in the world, Christ, and the phenomenon of this limitlessly, infinitely beautiful person is an infinite miracle in itself. (The whole Gospel according to John is about that: for […]

Children who do not read the important books when young fail to learn the great lessons of history, and will become illiterates wedded to television… I feel strongly that we need people who can read and write and are not couch potatoes. – James Michener, This Noble Land, p. 100/101, (1996)

The other two DeDecker sculptures are Into the Wind and The Old Man and the Sea, positioned at the North and South ends of the BecauseWay that leads to the art gallery and wine cellar beneath the tower.

The Money and Careers section of Time magazine’s website has an interesting piece by Eric Barker called, “Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows.” These are a couple of interesting paragraphs. “School has clear rules. Life often doesn’t. When there’s no clear path to follow, academic high achievers break down. Shawn […]

The wizard doesn’t like cowboy pictures as much as I do, but he does like silhouettes, so I figured I’d go with this one by Thompson Hughes.

By Endre Szasz, one of the wizard’s affordable favorites

Thomas Hart Benton was 12 years old when McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt stepped wonderfully into the Presidency. Benton is one of the wizard’s less affordable favorites.

“It is difficult to see why anyone becomes a fisherman. Dreadful things happen to them constantly: they lose their nets; the fish are wild; sea-lions get into the nets and tear their way out; snags are caught; there are no fish, and the price is high; there are too many fish, and the price is […]

The Other Kind of Advertising

Following a long and tedious application process with Federal, State, and County governments, our own Daniel Whittington has finally received permission to open an experimental whiskey distillery next to the Welcome Center. The last remaining hurdle will be the construction permit. I’ll keep you posted. – Indy

Want to read Tom’s Grackle story? Now check out (below) what arrived from DelanceyPlace.com just 3 days after the Wizard’s Mom’s email arrived (above).

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