Lost your password?

Blogs about: Ex Ee Muse Store

Featured Blog

You Make the Dough, I Get the Glory

Les Stewart wrote 3 weeks ago: Ms. Edwards opened for The Hip in Barrie last winter. Good clean fun. I Make the Dough, You Get the … more →

Tags: Kathleen Edwards, Lanny MacDonald, JUNO Cup

Don't think twice it's all right

Les Stewart wrote 3 weeks ago: We saw Dylan at the Aud on Nov 7th. Amazing. Pick up his Christmas CD. Christmas in the Heart, Bob D … more →

Tags: Writers, Bob Dylan, Christmas in the heart

Franchise Bar: The Name of the Game is Shame

Les Stewart wrote 2 months ago: Bad dog. Filthy animal. Shame dis-ables franchisees. It breeds a cluster of behaviours that is inacc … more →

Tags: Confusion & Deceit, A Confidence Game, fixer, Unsafe at any Brand, Donald L. Nathanson, Silvan S. Tomkins

Franchising'll change you

Les Stewart wrote 2 months ago: Certain experiences re-wire your brain and heart. For me, it’s made me a new man. The old Les … more →

Tags: A Confidence Game, Blue Rodeo, Til I'm Myself Again

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Les Stewart wrote 3 months ago: Martin Luther knew music has the capacity to move people. I’ve had that experience. If you you … more →

Tags: Martin Luther, Parachute Club, rise up, jadedflower.deviantart.com

Ship of Fools: Something hidden down below the level of conversation?1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 4 months ago: Probably the first time I heard the phrase “Ship of Fools”. It’s an ancient messag … more →

Tags: Bob Seger, Night Moves, ship of fools

There isn't much that I have learned, Through all my foolish years

Les Stewart wrote 4 months ago: Frank Sinatra had a quality that defied easy description. I didn’t know him so much as a singe … more →

Tags: Frank Sinatra, cycles

Everybody Knows Why they're giving franchises away

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Everybody knows the scene is dead But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed That will disclose … more →

Tags: Greatest lies are told in silence, Shame - Humiliation, A Confidence Game, Leonard Cohen, everybody knows, Rufus Wainwright

Down on Bullshit Avenue

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: International Symbol of Deaf and Near-Deaf A second great depression upon us all and all the U.S. me … more →

Tags: Predatory franchise lending, media, George Harrison, Patricia A. McCoy, Turning a Blind Eye: Wall Street Financing of Predatory, brainwashed, G.L. Chesterton, Social Sciences Research Network, Kathleen C. Engel. Predatory loans

If the Oz Franchise Bar took over an Airline4 comments

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Notice how being a pilot is a credence good just like being a franchise lawyer. Not very funny at th … more →

Tags: Lawyers as businesspeople, Confusion & Deceit, Interior Work, Monty Python, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, michael palin

For a good life, we just might have to weaken

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: A band so Canadian it has two Gords. [My dad's name was Gordon Alexander Stewart.] The way back is a … more →

Tags: the tragically hip, it's a good life if you don't weaken

Spring Surprise: Accurate, comprehensive, clear, high quality, transfat free, organic and bloody absurd disclosure2 comments

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: This 3:28 minute Monty Python skit demonstrates the problem with the fish-on-a-hook disclosure schem … more →

Tags: Confusion & Deceit, Monty Python, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Franchise disclosure, Terry Gilliam, Poo-filled franchise system

You're all alone and the dummies might be right

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: [link to video] My Music at Work, The Tragically Hip Everything is bleak. It’s the middle of t … more →

Tags: Interior Work, the tragically hip, My Music at Work

Surviving a franchise Hell

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Navigating a personal crisis of any origin is a trick. Some people have told me that a franchise fai … more →

Tags: Franchising is a Technology, Interior Work, Shame - Humiliation, Marshall McLuhan, A Descent into the Maelstrom, Edgar Allan Poe, Eric McLuhan, National Film Board of Canada

Life's a piece of shit, When you look at it

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Busy right now installing inground irrigation systems. Try this 3:55 Monty Python bit from the movie … more →

Tags: Interior Work, Monty Python, life of brian, always look on the bright side of life

Beware of thoughts that linger

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Beware of Darkness, George Harrison, Other words Watch out now, take care Beware of falling swingers … more →

Tags: Interior Work, George Harrison, Beware of Darkness

it's them you know not me1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Father and Son, Yusuf Islam Father It’s not time to make a change, Just relax, take it easy. Y … more →

Tags: Interior Work, Father and Son, Yusuf Islam, cat stevens

Where the less you know the better off you'll be

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Accurate observation is neutral: It is neither optimistic or pessimistic. It can challenge the statu … more →

Tags: Confusion & Deceit, Warren Zevon, disorder in the house, Bruce Springsteen, Jim Keltner

Lawful cautious & refind

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: William Blake, 1757-1827 [How to know Love from Deceit] Love to faults is always blind Always is to … more →

Tags: Lawyers as businesspeople, Confusion & Deceit, William Blake


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS