moon traveller herald

Poem-Passing the Hogbutcher Edge empty empty empty brick foundries, metal shops and drear depots on the rail out of chicago adjustable clamp co. -  architectural steel chicago mailing tubes  - mountains of tires and empty empty emptiness the secret health plan's no secret anymore we are adjusting to the mean and making america great again the prime minister of india is visiting and he's going to help might send one of the man hole cover factories back to neenah Make grates in America again lights on dusty sandlot ballfield empty empty empty now the first ball ever is in a wobbly orbit and  mr trump is alone on his podium                                                                        - Jack Vaughan See also CityCityCity writeup

Mary Meeker's annual report for Kleiner Perkins on the status of Internet commerce is always interesting - chock full of data and packed with gleefully greedy West Coast VC perspective.  Let's look at some highpoints out of the 150-plus Power Point Slide opus. Do you smell the fear in the Fortune 500? Smells like they could use some baby wipes. They can get them from Amazon, actually, which trails only Huggies and Pampers for online market share. For Duracell, it is deep doodoo, as Amazon surpasses the check out counter champ entirely  - on the Web. All that marketing and technology innovation - not too mention shelf shoving -- over many years seems for little or naught. (Off beat: I worked for 6 months at a drug store on 34th St in the 1970s and among the thing I learned was: "You cannot keep Pampers on the shelf" Translation: Shit happens.) The sound of foot prints echoes double in network television where the biggies are flat or in decline, but Netflix is...