Astrid Phillips Mayer

I recently started taking a certification course in digital marketing , and things were going pretty smoothly, until I had to write ab...

CITIZEN KANE If you're dating someone with no singing talent, for goodness' sake don't encourage them. THE GODFATHER Don...

So, in case you've been living under a rock, the FBI just published this file about Steven Paul Jobs . Yes, that Steve Jobs. When he w...

    When I'm not doing micromarketing or calculating inventory, I prance about like a Bollywood star in MBA talent shows. This seems to...

    Despite my original plan, I never did devote this blog to the ups, downs, and sideways (sidewayses?) of business school. This is becaus...

    certain Powerpoints were caused to occur:     Harvard -- the Merage of the East! (or so the dean says     and he seems like he knows) ...

    It's amazing how difficult it is to post when you have tons of reading, and projects to work on, and film screenings to attend, and ...

    Did you know that the UCI bookstore prominently features authors who happen to be on the UCI faculty? I think that's the coolest e...

    I spent all day Thursday walking around the UC Irvine campus, trying to tie up loose bureaucratic ends. I discovered that the school ha...

    And so, four years after starting this blog, I am returning to grad school, this time for my MBA at UC Irvine | Merage . The orientatio...

This just absolutely slays me. I may perish from cute overload. Sesame Street: Anderson Cooper Reports

So, here's the latest email I've received from the madcap folks behind Mindshare : We're excited to announce the program for nex...

I was checking my email, and I saw a list of talks coming up at the Huntington Library. I was skimming through, minding my own business, wh...

Flavia sent me this charming Japanese YouTube video, and I love it to bits:

It's been a long time since I last checked who's been visiting my websites. Here are some of my astridica.com visitors since last ...

Reader Finds Card Skimmer On Bank ATM I've always been paranoid about ATMs, but I figured I'd be fine if I only visited bank ATMs in...

First things first: Mr. T just had jury duty as well! Next things next: Last week, through this past Monday, I had jury duty on an attempted...

It was in a warehouse, downtown, after dark. I got there early and helped set up chairs. Hundreds of chairs -- dusty but light. Open bar. T...

So, I went to the UMEC Film Industry panel a couple of nights ago. Everyone on the panel went to UMichigan, or was at least from the state...

The Big Takeover , by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine (April 2, 2009 issue). In eight pages, Matt Taibbi explains what I've felt in ...