Homework. 

Preparing myself for the new Guardian of the Galaxy movie, I would read a lot of graphic novels before May. 

Read on. 

Even if I expected a little bit more of some characters like Mameha or Nobu-san, I must say I am delighted with the movie.

ken watanabe as the Chairman let me speechless, I really imagined the chairman like that!!
The costumes are amazing, and the soundtrack is so perfect!

If you understand the "six degrees of separation" concept, also known as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, that is what this review is about.  We have a little book here entitled Ornaments in Jade that was published by Tartarus Press in conjunction with Caerman Books on the centenary of its original publication.  

The stories, better described as prose poems, are lively and weird.  Eerie and sometimes horrible.  There were only 350 copies printed in 1997.  My copy has a bookplate by the late Roger Alan Dobson in it (look him up sometime).  

There is a nice little introduction by Barry Humphries.  So what?  Well Barry Humphries is none other than Dame Edith Everage and Australian parliamentarian Sir Les Patterson.  Look them up.  Now we have Arthur Machen connected to Ringo Starr, Robin Williams, Whoppi Goldberg, and everyone else Dame Edna ever "interviewed" or worked with.  

So the next time someone asks you what The Hill of Dreams has to do with Mork & Mindy, well, you can tell 'em.

Lisa Arthur (CMO at Teradata and author of "Big Data Marketing" (http://bit.ly/Big_Data_Mktg) speaks with Diego the Cat at DMA2013 about untangling data hairballs to become better data-driven marketers. For more information on direct marketing and DMA please visit: http://www.dmnews.com.