Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter

It’s a rainy Friday (a very big deal here in the desert) which means I go off the biz rails in today’s blog post. (Want a semi-serious post about marketing? Read my Lipsticking guest post, That Pesky Demographics Problem in Marketing.)

So, in no particular order and with tongue firmly in cheek, here are some things from my amusement (bemusement?) file for your reading pleasure. Happy Friday! WARNING: I talk some about a verboten topic, politics, which I find endlessly amusing, tiring, depressing and fascinating.

Cindy McCain Cookie-Gate. Geez, media, get a life. There IS no such thing as an “original” family cookie recipe. They all came from the back of a jar, bag, or can at some point. And, there are only so many ways you can vary on the recipes. Can’t we move past the whole First Lady cookie thing once and for all? It’s a hoary relic of the “little woman” days. Here’s what Ms. McCain should have said when asked for a recipe, “Honey, get real. I’ve got over a hundred million dollars. I fly planes. I don’t bake.”

The new movie, Wanted. This is possibly the dumbest movie I’ve ever seen….and I liked it. I won’t spoil it for ya, so I’ll just say the thing with the rats and peanut butter was really the way-over-the-topper. I think all actors involved should get an award for managing to keep a straight face.

We’re All Whiners. Ouch! I feel for Senator McCain - this ain’t helping his marketing. And, (gasp) I partly agree with Phil Gramm’s remark that we’ve sort of become a nation of whiners. Still and all, I find it amusing to watch the media pile-on regarding the remark, beating it to death three ways from Sunday, like they do everything else. Guess we’re a nation of bitter whiners, clinging to things and having hallucinations about the economy, heh?

Spammers. Yes, spammers. Thanks to my spam filters, on my email accounts and this blog, I get very, very little spam. So, I actually read some of it for fun. The sheer stupidity and naivete of most spammers is oddly endearing. You can tell the ones who are just starting out, bless their dumb little hearts. They’re the ones still oh-so-craftily misspelling Viagra and various body parts, and loading blog comments with a gazillion links. And there’s the whole new wave of pleas from Africa.

People who are shocked, I tell you, shocked that Barack Obama turns out to be a politician! Hey, I voted for the guy, plan to vote for him again. I like his wife for all the reasons my Mother hates her. I believe he’s sincere about wanting to change things (just as I still believe both McCain and Hillary have some good ideas and intentions in there somewhere. But running for President does weird things to people.) What part of “South Side of Chicago politico” did everyone miss on the first go-around? Further, anybody that would run for President has to be a tough egomaniac, ready and willing to dance a few turns with the Devil.

Stuff White People Like: Statistics and Comparing People to Hitler

There’s lots more - but why don’t you stop reading and go do something amusing.