Finally, Someone Understands Marketing in the Castro!

OK, so I admit that this window isn't from the Castro, but you have to admit that it had you thinking, "Maybe I need another slutspurt..."  Half-price, no less.

This photo is actually from a recent business trip I took to Copenhagen, and I have no idea what the store was selling.  If there are any Danes out there, please enlighten us.  I was running down the cobblestones, late for a meeting, dodging bicyclists, when this sign brought me to a screeching halt.  Even halfway around the world, I have the soul of a retailer, wrapped around the sense of humor of a 13 year-old boy.  (Slutspurt!  Hee hee!)

The photo is partly a peace offering to the kind readers whom I've disappointed by ignoring this blog, and partly an explanation of why I've been away from the blog so long -- too busy at work, traveling here and there, and also more than a little lazy.  I have been continuing the column in the Bay Area Reporter as well, and that has been taking up more time than I'd expected.  But I'm intent on putting on my writer's helmet again and getting back into the Castro retailing game.  I have a backlog of photos and stories, as well as a video or two.

So thanks to the approximately two readers who still visit my blog -- some guy whom I suspect is Chris Hansen, and another guy.  I hope to make this forum interesting and relevant again.

And failing that, I'll try to include some more "slutspurt" jokes.