Nuts About Southwest

A lot of people might think the title of this blog sounds a bit like an Agatha Christie novel. Perhaps with enough time and effort it could become my first novel. Realistically? I have my doubts. Lots of story ideas come to me and some are short and some are longer.

If the word “Blog” is short for web log, would a flight log be called “Flog?” 

Among his many talents, Herb Kelleher is an etymologist (one who studies words). Most people would probably say someone like that “likes to use $10 words” but when you are smart enough to start a company like Southwest Airlines, you get to be known as whatever you want. So with Herb as inspiration, I will try to use as many etymologically challenging words in this brief blog.

American Idol has become a juggernaut of American TV and has launched a number of similar shows in other countries—but if you want to experience American Idol without actually having to wait with thousands to audition, or know someone who works at Fox to get you in the TV audience,

I’d like to thank the artist Prince (btw—his real first name) for making the decision to forsake that name and go by a symbol between 1993 and 2000. The symbol was unique and of course did not have a sound associated with it although there was a spelling of it:  O(+> which was really an emoticon that falls way south in popularity behind ;-)