Equal Opportunity Blogging

She has a natural charm and grace, don't you think?










Okay, I fully admit that I am biased as hell, but still, isn't she the most beautiful girl in the world? Yes, she's really is mine, despite the resemblance to the FedEx guy. Do I know how to marry into good genes or what?

A different kind of dancing baby

This is mah tiger-boy, just shy of a year old. He can't really walk yet, and the steps he manages make him look a lot like he's had a few too many at the local pub. Provided he didn't get carded. Despite his inability to master upright forward motion, he has become quite the dancer. We're not really sure if this means he has a particular talent, and we should be researching dance schools and hiring an agent just yet, but I do plan on making a living off of my children's talents, so why not start planning early?

Are you a Hoosier?

Just a quickie. Here in Illinois, or at least in my area, they call rednecks Hoosiers. Unapologetically so. And it is mildly derogatory in usage. I wonder what out neighbors to the east (Indiana for the geographically ignorant) think about this? The Hoosier state, the Indiana Hoosiers, fine basketball lineage and all, and an outstanding brand of automobile tires. And this is an insult. Perhaps a lingering remnant of centuries old territorial disputes? You know, sort of like the term Pollock, while simply referring to a person from Poland, became derogatory in nature, why?, because of territorial disputes, in that case, a small dispute called World War II. Of course I am kind of guessing at the actual origin of the usage of the term Pollock, but the guess is relatively accurate in spirit if nothing else. Regardless, it's funny, and it was on my mind. Now it's not. Thanks RM.

Until next time, Hershberger...out.

What, you expect me to post more often than every 15 months?

I suppose I should just quit my job and become another one of millions of active bloggers out there. This has become an industry, if you can believe it. Who doesn't have a blog these days?

I have given some thought to it, and have considered many times reinventing this very blog to be a more useful resource related to my teaching. And then I realized something. 90% of these blogs are nothing more than personal sounding boards. Most people in the world need an audience. I don't. I have one, a captive one. I get to have an audience who I can punish for not listening to me. How cool is that? There are already plenty of resources out there for marketing students, and I am not so full of myself that I think I could add to that in a significant way. My time is better spent doing my research, making my classes more enriching, interacting personally with my students. So this blog will not, I repeat NOT, become a sounding board about what I think is important in the world of marketing and advertising. If you want that, enroll in one of my classes.

This blog instead will remain as it has been, a place for me to spend down time, puting down in type the thoughts that sometimes come into my head, but so rarely get to come out. You know, really important stuff like the best fast food, the benefits of pop culture icons, why real butter tastes better than anything that you can't believe it's not. So 15 months from now, get ready, because it will be time for yet another chapter in the history of.....whatever.

Until next time, Hershberger...out.