Top 10 Famous Guys (and Women, Because “Gals” Is Not A Word This Blog Uses) I’d Have a Beer With

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Top 10 famous people I’d have a beer with (or, it has been pointed out to me by a number of women friends, beer, wine, or other drink optional):

MEN

  • John Kasich
  • Bill Clinton
  • Denzel Washington
  • Barack Obama
  • Bono
  • Brian Regan
  • Lewis Black
  • Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P.)
  • Zuck (yes, Mark Zuckerberg)
  • Saved best for last….Jesus

Honorable mention: Bill Murray; John Gruden; Jake Johannsen

WOMEN

  • Sandra Bullock
  • Sarah Palin
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Victoria Soto (Newtown, CT…R.I.P.)
  • Avril Lavigne
  • Megan Kelly
  • Abby Wambach
  • Meg Whitman
  • P!nk
  • Jodie Foster

Honorable mention: Mother Teresa; Meryl Streep; Alex Morgan; Taylor Swift

Yes, this blog is aware it is going not just to Purgatory but straight to hell for listing Mother Teresa as “Honorable Mention.”

My pilgrimage to the musical motherland: U2

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…and other dispatches from Dublin during Management World 2011

Aye and Begorrah. The week I traveled to Ireland, President Obama did as well. Honestly not sure why he did not consult with me to sync up schedules…at any rate, the big news of the week for me professionally was attending an event-within-an-event, featuring the team I lead at Stratecast, at the world’s largest IT show for the communications industry. The Innovation Spotlight at Management World 2011 was built around the Rat Pack/10 to Watch report our team publishes each year identifying and analyzing the market’s hottest emerging companies. Check out some great videos from the event here.

Management World (MW) was chock-full of meetings each day plus working breakfasts and dinners, but in a few brief free moments I was able to snap a decent pictorial’s worth of pertinent pix. Continue reading