Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:51 PM Subject: Exponential Little Bits To: Indy@WizardOfAds.com Dear Indy, When you find this note – please pass along to Mr. Wizard my sincere thanks for his recent reminder about ELB’s. I have been a subscriber to MMM for nearly a decade now. It has changed my thinking in […]

Adventure In this 1929 woodcut by Hermann-Paul, Don Quixote follows the beagle in his brain.

This is the first page of last week’s rabbit hole.  You know what to do next, right? – Indy

“Hi. I’m Indy.” “Tanya.” “Whatcha thinkin’, Tanya?” “I’m thinking about my friend, Suzanne.” “Did something happen to her?” “Sort of.” “Want to talk about it?” “No.” “Sorry to have bothered you, Tanya. Your nightgown is lovely, by the way.” Tanya’s Moon by Gaylord Soli is 30′ x 48′ and the opening bid is $1,000. It will […]

Signed and dated on the lower left, Raymond Howell ’71, this western scene shows us two cowboys on horseback in the middle ground and a large wagon at the edge of the picture plane. This image stands alone in Howell’s oeuvre because the ethnicity of the cowboys is unclear. Most of Howell’s work features African-Americans. That’s why I walked in here. And guess what? They’re African-American […]

Don’t these guys remind you of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?

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Did you miss last week’s rabbit hole because the link from the memo didn’t work? We’ve heard that from lots of people, so when you’re done with this page, click Tom and Daniel and I’ll take you to it. And if you click the play bar to start the audio from MondayMorningRadio, it will continue to play […]

You may remember that we’re planning on building an amphitheater down by Engelbrecht House to host our own plays, musical performances, and impromptu soapbox monologues by adventurous students. We are still going to build that amphitheater, but we just couldn’t wait any longer to hold our first outdoor theater experience! We will limit our first […]

Barber Shop, 1952    photo by Flip Schulke

James Russell Ford (1888 – 1963)

Did you realize that 27 years have flickered past since Sean Connery appeared as Harrison Ford’s father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? (1989) As you watch this video, keep in mind that it was made just six years after the zenith of a “Me” generation. The heroic bluster of “Me” always seems comical in a “We.”

Ray Bard says marketers focus too much on how many people they have in their networks when they should be concerned with the degree of influence they have with those people. Ray Bard is a genius.

You still looking for the wizard’s detailed answer about how to meet people who are hard to meet? You passed it! Give Richard Schickel (below) a click and I’ll take you back to it. When you get there, remember to scroll down the page.

Thought Leader Spoof We always knew it was just a matter of time before someone did this, right?

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss and Brian Scudamore

Shane is the lead singer, the dude in the middle.

In the 1605 book by Cervantes, Don Quixote never meets Dulcinea. She’s never aware he exists. Yet everything he does is in her name and for her honor. In reality, the woman he calls Dulcinea is just a common village girl named Aldonza Lorenzo. Dulcinea exists only in the mind of Don Quixote de La Mancha, who, by the way, doesn’t really […]

“In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion – and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium. Our innate imbalances are further aggravated by practical demands. Our […]

People don’t really change their minds. They simply make new decisions based on new information. In the absence of new information, there will be no new decision. Give a person the same information you’ve given them in the past and they’ll make the same decision they’ve made in the past. Want a new decision? Provide […]

This is my quest: to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.

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The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church. Painted in 1861, the first year of the American Civil War, it’s 9 feet wide.

Cricket on the Beach, or The Crowd Spies Indy by Thierry Poncelet

I was a ten year-old boy holding a flashlight for my Dad while he worked on an air conditioner for a customer. His name was Duncan Goodrich. He didn’t talk much. But there’s a certain kind of magic that happens when a son holds a flashlight for his father. I held it steady and quiet […]

Do you remember the Monday Morning Memo for April 4th? Perhaps these few lines will joggle your memory: I’ve been hired by someone in a boring business category to get the attention of the locals in Las Vegas. That’s right. Las Vegas. The first thing I’m going to do is put up billboards that make no […]