David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Dec 5, 2009, 7:39 pm
"It took me awhile to understand that all her 'I love you's' and all her 'I hate you's' came from the same affliction - ambivalence" - Travis For more in the Travis Diaries, c...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Dec 4, 2009, 10:28 am
Boy howdy, it's been awhile since we had our normal Vietnamese Nuclear Physics Quiz but we're happy to be back along with one of our luscious Vietnamese Ph.D.s giving us the skinny on that bad...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Dec 2, 2009, 12:07 pm
West Point, New York (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 U.S. troops to Florida is part of a strategy to reverse Tiger Wood's 'transgressions' with cocktail...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Dec 2, 2009, 7:28 am
"Tiger got busted by the wifie, so he went out and slammed his wood into, uhh, wood. Beautiful women are a bitch" - Travis For more in the Travis Diaries, check here: Sex: The Travis Diaries I "I'...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Dec 1, 2009, 3:32 pm
Remember the scene in the movie Pulp Fiction, where that line came up? Yes, there was a man in a more than compromising position with a black rubber ball in his mouth. That's how most people feel ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 27, 2009, 4:44 pm
"Love: It's like one of those carnival rides you pay money for and they spin you around real fast - and when it's over you're dizzy, but everything else is still pretty much the same." - T...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 26, 2009, 11:17 am
Ahh, it's Thankgiving Day in America and you're catching up on your blog reading. Good for you. And football? Nice. I'm hungry. And so maybe are thousands or maybe millions of bloggers aro...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 25, 2009, 5:04 pm
According to the finance ministers of both France and Germany, the recession is over with two quarters of growth reported for both countries. The United Kingdom is another story but that's not my ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 23, 2009, 4:26 pm
"Okay, I was coerced on leaving by a beautiful, if somewhat out of touch with reality girl, who held sex, money and travel in her quiver. Am I an idiot? No. I'm a man DAMMIT! I would have been an ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 22, 2009, 10:20 am
I'm going to do something I rarely do, and reprint nearly an entire post from Seth Godin, because this one really hit me where I was living at the time I read it. Now with Seth issuing a post to h...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 17, 2009, 8:21 pm
I hope you think this is as much fun as I did. So I'm looking at my Statcounter statistics because those give me a detailed list, hit by hit, of every tick this blog gets - and I see a hit from M...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 16, 2009, 6:08 pm
And who would have thunk, that MJ would have been a fixture here in Germany, and in Munich of all places. I posed earlier this year on his death while I was in Dalat on a rebirth of my own but I never...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 15, 2009, 3:46 pm
Imagine a world of Dali-esque proportions. Where all the clocks dripped in the sluggish taking of time. Now imagine a world where love goes by that clock, continually making times and commitments but ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 15, 2009, 12:59 pm
After a seriously confusing year last year with The Golden Bells, The BIG SHOW and The Vietnam Advertising Festival all staging shows in a market that's really only large enough for one good show,...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 11, 2009, 5:19 pm
Many of you will have noticed that I've referenced Technorati and their blog ranking system in the last few posts. For those non-geeks, Technorati (Technorati is a portmanteau of the words technol...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 8, 2009, 5:08 pm
My recent post, encouraging contributions to the Wild Wild East Dailies kicked up a discussion over at RCNevada's "My View Of The World" on the order of whether a blog is a real product and whethe...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 7, 2009, 5:27 pm
... ;re not mine - even the reviewer has a more interesting story than mine. All I try to do is write down, as best I can, the images and feelings I have. What happens after that is out of my hands. ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 7, 2009, 11:14 am
Monday will be the 20th anniversay of the fall of the Berlin wall and this news seems to be all all the rage on CNN but hardly a blip on the radar here in Munich. I've had one conversation on this...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 5, 2009, 5:28 pm
"There is a big difference between you and Hugh Mcleod: His book bases on cartoons: His cartoons, which are unique and entertained and not imitable. NEver. Form that point, his blog just delivers a pl...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 5, 2009, 2:27 pm
Hope hides in corners. Hope collides with wisdom. Hope lies in tiny feet yearning for attention. Hope kills bad ideas. Hope defeats giants. Hope is the only virtue that, all on it's own, affo...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 4, 2009, 7:14 pm
Well, that's not the kind of idea that can really die is it? Can we say that we're in Beta? And now retooling? Exactly. One partner is off learning that no amount of money can make a dream com...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 4, 2009, 3:40 pm
Holy shit. What did that that email say? "Notification of Donation Recieved" This PayPal email confirms that you have recieved a donation of $50 from... Holy shit again. The mail goes on to explain...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Nov 1, 2009, 11:29 am
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Oct 31, 2009, 7:37 pm
Someone very, very close to me had a very, very tough week this week. And I can't help thinking that this is how she felt. Hugh's cartoons have a way of just finding me at the right moment wit...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Oct 31, 2009, 1:33 pm
And that's quite the big deal. Just this last week the Wild Wild East Dailies was selected for inclusion by Trakkrz.com. Trakkrz boasts being “the world’s largest hand-picked blog site on th...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Oct 27, 2009, 7:37 pm
Those wings are yours. And powerful. And full of good meaning. The sun melted some, but you came down in time to not fall. To not fall completely. Injured? A bit. But not damaged beyond repair. Oh how...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Oct 18, 2009, 5:14 pm
Ahh, Bavaria. Home to the Bavarian Motor Works, Vladmir Lenin and Adolph Hitler, and the Beer Hall Putsch - most of what's left are the Beemers and of course Oktoberfest - then there's been Mo...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Oct 2, 2009, 1:52 pm
As I have now relocated to a new city and begin a new adventure in marketing, it seems only professional to offer a biography of professional proportions - and so here that is: David Everitt-Carlson....
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 29, 2009, 7:16 pm
. Recently I've recieved a number of nice notes from people who read my book, Wild Wild East over the summer. This note from Yves Capelle made me smile: " This is definitely good stuff - and shoul...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 26, 2009, 7:00 am
As I have been away on extended holiday, tons of things have been going on and I have been remiss in attending to them from a reporting perspective. My bad. So to make up for past sins, here's a m...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 23, 2009, 3:31 pm
[The photos here are arranged in comparitive fashion - first with Mali on the right and Paris on the left, and then, with Paris and French things on the left and comparitives George Jetson and Munich...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 19, 2009, 4:02 pm
The trouble with Mali is that there is no trouble. Not at least the sort of contemporary corruption and civil unrest associated with Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. Rather, Mal...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 17, 2009, 5:33 pm
... (WWED for short) we're extremely concerned with reader input, reader satisfaction, reader interaction and feedback of all varieties, good and not so good - so we've recently instituted a...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 15, 2009, 5:02 pm
09.02.09 The day began with apartment searches in Bamako and let me tell you, a trip to the grocery store, a car buying soree or an apartment search for foreigners will turn up higher prices in Mali t...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 13, 2009, 6:36 pm
08.31.09 - If you could hear the children sing, you would love Mali like no other country on Earth. And it was for just 20 minutes on a Monday evening that had begun with a morning straight out of "Th...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 10, 2009, 6:12 pm
08.29.09 - RCNevada opens his post, Onward To Mali, with the following, " I’ve never been to Mali, but I’ve spoken to people who have. And after hearing their stories and seeing their pictures I c...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Sep 3, 2009, 8:58 pm
"Goddammit honey, I left that owner's manual to life around here somewhere! Have you seen it?" I'm looking exactly for the page that tells me what to do when I go from Paris, France to Bamako,...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 31, 2009, 9:04 pm
As my parting note from Paris, please read the following post from Seth Godin here, and then my non-encounter with Publicis Groupe afterward. Seth Godin is a best selling author on marketing and regul...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 28, 2009, 3:20 am
As I make my exit from Paris, I head to my local Internet cafe to clear my mails and make final preparation for today's departure to Mali, Afrika - printing visas, touching base with Twitter Faceb...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 23, 2009, 9:35 pm
Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Bastille Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris Paris...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 20, 2009, 5:27 pm
18.08.09 - 8am: and the B&W girl is at the door. What could it be? She had packed her gear and left the day before. Hungover as hell I open it to wash away a night of beer drinking and trying to figur...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 17, 2009, 11:05 am
Ahh, the Louvre or Musee National Picasso Paris, no? No. The painters in Paris are real painters and the canvases, the buildings. The pictures? Our lives. To see Paris and only see the monuments, the ...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 14, 2009, 10:56 am
Hello Parisians. The rest of the trailer trash who usually reside here can just go get yourself a cold Budweiser and sit this one out. "Paris is just way too cool and sophisticated for you", he said w...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 11, 2009, 7:59 am
#25. That's us. The Taxi from Paris Est Station to St. Germain and the 6th arrandissement is a whirlwind of postcard images and a far cry from the order of Frankfurt or the disorder of Ho Chi Minh...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 6, 2009, 11:28 am
Frankfurt comes on the heals of Vietnam like a powerbleached metropolis built between the lines of commerce and commerz. The difference is striking. Surreal. The Mercedes taxi slides past Festival Par...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 2, 2009, 5:37 pm
What's a Virtual Parrot? People who tweet the same shit over and over again, like @Techchat. Nah, @yechchat!© David.E.Carlson@gmail.com
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 2, 2009, 12:31 am
Back in March, I did a story called "Detri-viral Marketing: When Web 2.0 Works Against Your Brand". The impetus for that story was a Vietnamese commercial for a tea beverage called Dr. Thanh. Well bef...
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David E. posted an article on The Wild Wild East Dailies - Aug 1, 2009, 3:07 am
Thanks to Freya for this story from the New York Times, "Bright Lights, Big Internet" by Bill Wasik. It's dead on and we're all living it. Click on any paragraph and see the whole story. THIS...
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