Back to The Cold, Burger King is Doing it Right
Just got back from vacation to Florida. Great seeing all of my Florida friends, hanging on the beach, even got a little jam session in. Now I’m back and BAM! It’s freezing. When I left this morning for work it was 6 degrees. Florida for the winter sounds like a plan, but it’ll be a […]
How was 2008 for the BIG retailers?
Well, the fourth quarter numbers haven’t come out yet, but this Holiday season was a tough one for retail, especially jewelry and luxury. According to National Jeweler, “online sales of jewelry and watches didn’t fare well this holiday season (Nov. 1-Dec. 24), falling 24 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the […]
Larry David and Me
My life mirrors Larry David’s experiences in Curb Your Enthusiasm in so many ways. From getting into an argument with the Chinese restaurant about the amount of shrimp put in a dish, to his other problems and misunderstandings, it’s really unbelievable. Recently, I experienced an incident where this scene comes to mind: Oh well, what […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year – this is what it’s all about – take a look at my little slugger: Untitled from mbarnstein on Vimeo.
In The Wall Street Journal…And Some Great Spanish Food
Well, the facebook unfriending or de-friending fiasco has almost come to a close. The Wall St Journal found my blog post and interviewed me about this issue. Wow – and I even got a sketch in there or a “hedcut” – although I don’t like the chins they put in there – oy vey. Click […]
Gold and Platinum, Big Blue Diamond – Watch These Kids Play Phish
It’s been a while since I posted, but that’s a good thing because we are busy selling (and buying) diamonds. Now is the time. We have a lot of items on sale, and we are making some great jewelry buys from customers coming in to our store, and from all over the country. We are […]
A Crazy Facebook Fan Page
Well, the job of Facebook never ends. Here’s a good one. The jeweler that I talked about before who unfriended me has a son in his business. I created a group for jewelers and other people in the trade called the “Facebook Jewelers Network”. I get a request from this guy’s son to join. Well […]
Warren Haynes is Better with The Allman Brothers
Warren Haynes in my opinion is one of the best out there. I wrote about him earlier and posted a video of him playing with Trey from Phish. So I was really stoked to see Warren Haynes with Gov’t Mule last week. I have been watching him with The Allman Brothers Band for a long […]
Unfriended on Facebook – Compliment or Diss?
So I friend requested a jeweler in the Midwest, has a big luxury store, Rolex, Cartier, the whole deal. He also likes music and is a third generation family business, like me. I said that in my request and an hour later he accepted. Then I look on my page the next day and I’m […]
The Big Diamonds Still Sell
Check out what happened yesterday at Christie’s New York… NEW YORK (AFP) — Two giant diamonds sold for more than six million dollars at auction Wednesday to a Middle Eastern buyer, bucking a wave of gloom that has taken the shine off luxury sales. The Ponahalo diamonds, mined in South Africa and named after a […]
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