Michael Gracie 

Why a lot of what you read really doesn’t matter:
Fragmentation applies to 100pct of media. We have gotten to the point where it is so easy to publish to the web, that most of it is ignored. When it is not ignored and it garners attention, the attention is usually from those people, the amateur [...]

I’d been working like a dog all week, and seeing it was a short week I was extremely worn out. A man can only go without fly fishing for so long, and my limit seems to be…uh…well it has been roughly ninety hours since I last cast a fly to fish. Pathetic I [...]

Everybody and their mother knows I can give fly fishing waders a good swift kick in the crotch pants. As gear goes, waders are what I am toughest on, and as a result I generally don’t scrimp when it comes to them. The last full-time use pair, Simms Guides, have just about had [...]

The internet is full of instructions, but few will direct you how to successfully be a no-show at several backyard BBQs, miss two hometown basketball games, and yet maximize your alcohol consumption just the same. Fly fishing for carp can do that to a person.
Step 1
Find a local park pond teeming with carp. [...]

Memorial Day is more than just a work/school day off, for backyard BBQs. It’s a day of remembrance, for men and women who have fought and died so you could freely drink a PBR while fly fishing for carp today. So before you fire up that grill, pop that bottlecap, or start your [...]

Fly Fisher Girl Hannah Belford is sponsoring a rockin’ contest. We all (hopefully) practice catch and release, but sometimes the fish aren’t handled in a way that maximize their chances of fighting another day – Hannah wants to change that…
Angling kills fish. However, with proper care and attention one can minimize the impact. In [...]

Yesterday was my dog’s birthday. He got his present back in early April, a new bed. But as this was #10 for him, some celebration was in order. Unfortunately, collies aren’t allowed in most French restaurants, so he slept on that bed while a feast of magnanimous proportions took place…
For Starters
A bottle [...]

One of my nuggets of wisdom to bankruptcy/reorganization clients is if you’re going to get stuck with a secured position in bankruptcy, try and make sure you’re one of the little guys. The reason is smaller creditors in an existing secured class are often in the best position to cause trouble when a [somewhat] [...]

Woe is the person or company who hands me something to review, and only expects me to tear their gear to pieces. No, around here I [unintentionally] destroy all samples, but not until after I’ve extracted a pound of flesh for the benefit of this blog’s vast multitudes…healthy count…minuscule number of readers.
A few days [...]

Technology
MSN Overhauls City Guides, Integrates With Live Search [search engine land]
The “Dangers” of Free [Slashdot]
Don’t Newspapers Owe Google Money For Helping Them Research Stories For Free? [Techdirt]
Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists? [Bits/NY Times]
Finance
How to…launder money [FT Alphaville]
Newspapers Must Be Allowed To Fail [Silicon Alley Insider]
Where The Jobs Are: Accounting [Forbes]
V.C.’s Ignore Business Plans, [...]