I’m starting a new tribe – Dulcinea’s Darlings – and I want you to be in it. Can you find 10 bucks a month? I asked the wizard if he would let me give a limited edition print of this 16 x 16 painting to all my friends because it’s my personal favorite from his collection of more than 1,000 original […]

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The wizard and the princess knew it was a special painting, but they weren’t sure exactly why. You know the wizard. He bought it on gut-instinct. It turns out to be a 150+ year-old portrait of Romanov Princess Elizabeth Esperovna Belosselsky-Belosenky. She was 23 at the time. She later married the Russian Prince Peter Troubetskoy. As the great Tom Grimes […]

Be sure to watch the video. Disco is hilarious. The funniest part of all is he wasn’t trying to be funny. – Indy

 

If your goal is to add major-league video to your web presence without adding $100,000/yr to your payroll, you’ll definitely want to watch this video of the wizard’s son, Roy H. Williams IV. (Yep, the wizard is actually “Roy the third.” When I’m angry I call him “Roy the turd.”) The wizard and the princess never […]

 

Andrew Backus – Geology – and the notes on my telephone.

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Those of you that have read Destinae – the wizard’s Free the Beagle trilogy – will recall that a lawyer named Intellect is accompanied on his journey by a female beagle named Intuition. I’ve occasionally heard the wizard tell people that I, the obviously male Indy Beagle, represent the spirit of reckless adventure. Represent? Represent? I don’t […]

Next week’s Monday Morning Memo is called “What Watson Said” and the wizard quotes me in it! So you’ll want to get up really early next Monday so you can read it, right? I’ll see you then. Indy

What Watson Said Watson is the mega-powerful learning computer created by IBM. A brief interaction between IBM’s Watson and singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has gathered more than 3 and a half million YouTube views in just 90 days. ESTABLISHING SHOT: [Dylan walks into the frame carrying a guitar.] WATSON: Bob Dylan, to improve my language skills. […]

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What follows below was sent to us this week by one of the cognoscenti. I decided to share it because I already made fun of the wizard’s obsession with Don Quixote and I figured he’d be less mad at me if I made fun of some other people, too. In the interest of fair play, if you’re […]

Is it possible to live in this digital age and NOT lose our love of stories and play-acting and silliness? Consider for a moment the character of Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Consider Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.  “Downey, like Johnny Depp, has found a way of remaining hip […]

“Columbus’s real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting […]

Jefferson Eisenberg sent this because he knows I dislike Wal-Mart (because of how poorly they treat their employees.) Follow this link to read the whole story by Hiroku Tabuchi in the New York Times or Google “It’s Amazon and Also-Rans in Retailers’ Race for Online Sales” published Dec. 30, 2015.

I said to the wizard, “Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Study one religion, and it will take a lifetime. Study two religions, and you’ll be done by lunch?’” He said, “Sure, Indy. And if you want to study the big ones, TED can explain all 5 in just 11 minutes.” I said, “Sweeeet.”

NOTE: The wizard often asks me if he can post something in the rabbit hole. Sometimes I say yes. Sometimes I say no. This time I told him, “After Christmas.”  He wrote the following on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 2015, the day after Black Friday. I didn’t let him post it until now because I knew it […]

It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

 

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In his study of music and its effects on our mood, Brittington ran across this zero-budget, Public Access Television cooking show. Heh, heh, heh. – Indy

See the website of the Revival House restaurant by clicking the whisky pairings below.

Check it out, cub scout. The wizard got two different animators to turn his recent theological speculation into a Christmas video.  You’ll find both versions below. A String Theory Christmas Story Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian Greene and the Bible. Calm down. No one is trying to argue you into faith. Faith is not logical. Faith is […]

Devin and Setsumi Wright were the First Runners-Up in the Bad Christmas Sweater Contest in Tuscan Hall last night. Jennifer Compton – the bookkeeper for the Wizard of Ads Partners – took home the amazingly tacky trophy, Randolph the Redneck Reindeer.  You can see Jennifer’s arrival in the video below. And that’s before she turned on […]

This short clip shows the flashing lights. All sweaters should have flashing lights. – Indy (The Picasso is viewable up-close only from a catwalk high above the floor of Tuscan Hall. You have to have a key to get through the iron gate.)

During his army service in WWII, David Attie (1920-1982) painted pinup-style portraits on the noses of combat planes. In 1961, his first professional assignment as a commercial photographer was to create a series of photo montages to illustrate Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.“ Attie’s work would later appear in Vogue, Time, Newsweek, and Harper’s Bazaar as well as a number of book covers.