Happy Thanksgiving

My favorite holiday has arrived.

Not a good day to be one of these guys.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

Marketing 101

A New Dawn has arrived not only in movie theaters (which I will talk about later) but also in today’s marketing world.

This video is quite simply perfect.

Cheers to John St. in Toronto for this splendid piece of work.

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Right Now

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and there is a boquet of mama’s in this country with breast cancer. And they don’t know it.

This weekend San Diego was host to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-day, a 60-mile walk that passes through all the major nooks and neighborhoods in town. People in pink, men in tutus, ladies twirling brasiers, spectators holding up handwritten signs like “Boobs are forever!” and “Stop the war in my rack. Yes We Can”. And yet, despite all this support and fundraising and successes we’ve had in the fight against breast cancer, it’s still been 2-years since a perverse, bought and paid for government task force concluded that women in their 40′s don’t need to be getting mammograms with regularity.

Translation: The Insurance companies have bought themselves another government “ruling” so that they can use that ruling to adjust what they will cover in their insurance policies.

I support the capitalism in this country. I WANT innovative hardworking people to make money in this country.

But not at the expense of people’s health.

This is unacceptable.

If you are a mama go get mammograms REGULARLY, and whenever you want.

I give you permission to walk into an emergency room, give false information, and get checked.

It could be the single biggest reason why we need to regulate and reform the system. And shame on our government.

So irresponsible it hurts my stomach.

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Return

Tonight, throughout San Diego, heads may be put to rest, assuaged, and reassured for that purveyor of purpose of everything good and true, Tim DeMartin, already surpassed by greatest expectation among the free-formed accounts of the many 20,000 who have visited this blog, given it’s best implements and ornaments of my own humble faith in the world, has returned to the seat of his responsibility at this post. Without the warp, woof, and weave of my own story’s tapestry, burnandpeel would be an old and conventional reflection of fair equality, in which connection we particularly recommend Disney, Nike, and Gatorade for your satisfaction. A full and fair mindedness requires us also to report that here at burnandpeel, which for now sits on Ocean Beach’s main thoroughfare, homely posts, without cursing and remuneration, the opinions and thoughts expressed herein framed by the squarest mind in all of Southern California, remain unabatedly available at all hours, seven days a week, here at burnandpeel.com.

Great Dane!

If you had asked most anyone this question, who are the happiest people in the world, the answer would likely fall straight off the edge of Columbus’ flat map. In a world wrought with its own score of problems, economic uncertainty, global inequality, natural disasters, which country would you answer? Could you answer?

Well, the results are in, and after a multi-national survey from two different agencies, this study has concluded that there is indeed a happiest place on Earth. And no, it’s not Disneyland. According to the poll, the surest measures of a country’s well-being come from their freedom to choose how to live one’s life, encouragement of gender equality, and tolerance for minorities.

On every count and tally, the country known for its, “Beauty in the small,” Denmark has once again taken the top seat as the world’s happiest people.

Tillykke, Denmark! And thanks for sharing a bit of your happiness by tuning in today.

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Newfangled

tell a joke
hold the elevator
say hi to a stranger
make weird noises
kiss
talk to your God
believe in yourself
go one inch further
laugh at yourself
sing in the car
take a chance
forgive someone
call your Mom

...tell your story

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Arriving, First Daize

The road to Haiti is long and exciting. Once you wake up and step out the door, everything is a new experience. 

Arrive in Haiti and one of the things you first see are the people living on the whim's of the sun and the rain, and the beams of sugar cane that you can sell at the market. This is a land that can be seen under many different aspects. Beauty being one of them. The natural beauty seen here in the mountains and the sea, the clouds and sunshine, along with the vivid colors, all go to create a landscape that is truly breathtaking. 

Everything here is unfamiliar. There is a sense that all has been assembled out of dreams and an unpolished veneer of reality. Poverty is yet another unfamiliar element, poverty being more extreme here than anywhere else in the hemisphere, more extreme than imagination. 

Almost.