Just got word that electronics retailer Circuit City has filed for Chapter 11.
I would like to mourn their passing but I won’t. Circuit City well deserves their “once was” status due to their medieval labor practices and half assed business strategies (remember DIVX pay per view DVD players?).
I predicted this earlier this year so I am happy to say I told you so.
Last night was a night of firsts… To celebrate I decided to create a first of my own here at Sparkplug and ask my old friend, Charlie McKee, founder of Bakka Books and native son of the great state of Virginia, to share his thoughts on last night’s election. What follows are Charlie’s thoughts as the evening progressed.
Thanks again Chuck. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s finally here after almost two years.
This Presidential election is the most important in our generation and it is easy to see why. Tomorrow, history will be made. Read the rest of this entry »
It is now less than a week before Americans go to the polls to pick the next President. The declarations, the primaries, the conventions and the campaigns are almost over. A vast majority of the polls show Barack Obama out ahead (in some cases with a double digit lead) and many Republican stalwarts looking like they are going down in flames (like one of John McCain’s jet fighters). Read the rest of this entry »
This says it all. Click the picture to make it bigger.
With just over two weeks to go in the U.S. Presidential election the momentum is definitely swinging toward Barack Obama. He has sizable leads in most of the swing states and is making gains in states that were once considered safe Republican strongholds. Read the rest of this entry »
With all of the attention being focused on the U.S. election it is hard to believe that there is actually an election going on north of the border. Up here in the great white north we like to have our elections like we like to have our sex - quick. Read the rest of this entry »
The house of cards that once was the American financial system is falling faster than Sarah Palin’s poll numbers.
Yesterday saw the single greatest drop on the New York Stock Exchange in history. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to the loyal readers who noticed that I have been off the air for a few weeks.
This was not intentional, but after almost two years of Sparkplugging I was suffering a mild case of blog burnout.
It’s not that there hasn’t been a lot happening what with the Presidential debate, the Canadian election and Sarah Palin’s latest strangeness.
I just needed to take a short break.
Sad to say that my friend Douglas passed away last week after battling a long illness. I wrote a piece on eating chicken wings at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo several postings back. That was almost the last time that our family and Douglas’s spent time together. We all had a great time that day.
Again it is often the simple pleasures in life that can mean so much. As Warren Zevon once said “Enjoy every sandwich.”
As we approach our second year I have been thinking a lot about Sparkplug and over the coming months I plan to take it in a new direction. Over the next weeks I will talk about this further.
But for now, I have crawled out from under the bed and gotten back to work.
The contrast is in the shots of the crowd. I’ve been watching pundit free coverage on CSPAN of the RNC and everytime they go to a shot of the crowd the faces are always the same - white, well-fed and wrinkly. Read the rest of this entry »
While the hurricane tore across the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans Republicans danced the night away to the rock group ‘Hookers and Blow’ at a party thrown by the National Rifle Association.
It had to set the tone for the rest of the week as those wacky elephant men get together for an old fashioned John McCain clusterf**k. Read the rest of this entry »
Several months ago, in a posting I said that Hillary Clinton would rise up and do the right thing.
Last night she did. To a crowd of wildly enthusiastic supporters she addressed the convention. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s all about the sizzle.
Over the next few days the Democrats are meeting in Denver to nominate Barak Obama as their choice for President. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, I eliminated one more item from my list of Things to do Before I Die.
It was #39 “Eat Buffalo Wings at the Anchor Bar”. Read the rest of this entry »
