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When I started out in high tech publishing, the head of the company was a well-mannered businessman - and, surely, salesman, who was glad to discuss his graduate business management thesis at a well known Eastern Ivy League establishment on the topic of 'how to manage creative people.' He like more than a few sales-publishing bosses that ran things in my stops on the way liked journalists and art dept folk (the latter, especially, if they wore miniskirts), but he was the only one that ever explicitly seemed to look at what was going on this way - that managing creative people was the task.  My recollection of the best stop with the most fun crew is that we would play, regale and generally show off and entertain each other through the day and would, many of us get to actual work around 4pm. It's still my notion of the creative process or part of the process. That's the background for posting this Google Talk with John Cleese, who was decided his topic for the Google Talk...

In Japanese,  haiku  are traditionally printed as a single line, while  haiku  in English often appear as three lines. There are several other  forms  of Japanese poetry related to  haiku , such as tanka, as well as other art  forms  that incorporate  haiku , such as haibun and haiga. The  tanka  is a thirty-one-syllable  poem , traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A  form  of waka, Japanese song or  verse ,  tanka  translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count  form .   Short song of Sunnyland: Denton We had a lotta cane / rattlesnakes, bears, panthers / come up to you alot / we chewed the sorghum that grew on stalks / Cleaned up the land at six bits a day. Spann was bad / Im gonna tell you Spann put out a sound / he didn’t have nothing to do after he got with Muddy / If there’s whiskey there. That’s what killed him...

  A person standing NeXT to a van. Description automatically generated with medium confidence In the category of something completely different. I found this picture of New Orleans piano great Jack Dupree yesterday, and I thought it was cool to pick up on. I never saw Jack, but I have a few of his records, which show he belongs in the pantheon of piano professors. The pic showed up in a Twitter feed that asked people to cite American blues players that went to Europe and more or less stayed there (Memphis Slim, Eddie Boyd, Luther Allison are just some of those listed along with Jack). I like the picture cause, well, he has a simple kind of car but he has pride enough to stand with it. Maybe he’d have liked a Cadillac, but this one would save on gas, and it looks like it could haul equipment too.  Does it make him look shorter or taller than he would in front of a Cadillac? (Your call.) And sign says it all: Champion Jack Dupree, Blues Pianist of New Orleans, LA.U.S.A." {Little...