My Life As A Toy

I've worked for Barbie. And for Joan Jett.

Now one brilliant item combines both: Mattel's Joan Jett Ladies of the '80s Doll.


There are also Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry dolls, but I didn't just buy either one of those on Amazon. A tiny, perfect Joan, however, complete with red Chucks and white Gibson, will take a place of pride in my office soon.

I love rock 'n' roll!

Bell X1, Levon Helm Have The Right Stuff

I love it when clients have something in common. In the case of Levon Helm and Bell X1, they may be far apart musically but they share something else: a relationship to the Bell X1, the airplane that broke the speed of sound in 1947.

In Levon's case, it's purely fictional. Here he is as Captain Ridley in the film "The Right Stuff" (also starring another hero of mine, Sam Shepard):



Bell X1 got its name from said airplane, now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution beside other landmarks of flight:

Pretty cool!