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I'm happy to be traveling to Michigan next week to give two talks at the Great Michigan Road Trips Conference, hosted by Michigan Preservation Network.

I'll be giving two talks, one on Building Vacation Packages That Work and one called What'cha Got? A Dozen Lessons on Building Partnerships When Cash is Scarce.

I'm looking forward to attending the conference and seeing some of my old friends up that way.

-Ed

The East Coast's
Largest
Green
Festival

Trip Report: 28th Annual Hampton Bay Days, Hampton, Virginia

A long, long time ago, as a young account guy at an ad agency here in Atlanta, I handled the corporate financial advertising for BellSouth, right after the AT&T breakup.

I just upgraded to some new blog software and managed to kill the MySQL database that makes all this run.

Long story short, I learned a lot, but it's also going to take me a while to recover the old posts. Or maybe I'll just get back to creating new ones.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience.

-Ed

One of the things that never fails to amuse me is an old monster movie from the 1950s. When I was a kid I used to pester my parents to take me to see things like Reptilicus and Gorgo.

The best ones have hot rods, early rock roll and giant monsters (or tourism.) Reptilicus ends up trashing Tivoli Gardens and Gorgo is put on display as a tourist attraction.