Rick Butts

*Video: speaker machine video A strange and wonderful thing has happened to me over the last year. I’m not talking about the usual kind of enlightenment, I’m talking about how a consulting session turned into a sort of reverse-business-psychoanalysis.                    

Regular readers (and slightly irregular readers) of this blog will notice that everything has freakin’ changed! Well, you voted for change, right? Choosing a layout for this site has driven me crazy. When I discovered the single column layout for my WordPress theme, it was like Hosanna! Yeah! FREEDOM! I’m sure the cleanliness is jarring [...]

I am writing this post using my iPhone – how awesome is that? No 140 character limit and no laptop just the free app for WordPress for iPhone and a quick admin update to allow XML publishing and I am untethered, bad and nationwide. Transitioning from rare article publications to life-streaming, at least on my [...]

The first thing I thought was wow – and the last thing I thought was why aren’t The Informants opening for national acts? Denver Colorado count your blessings that this ultra-cool roadhouse boogie band was born in your city and as of this writing can still be seen at a venue as intimate as Herman’s [...]

A brilliant Carlinesque rant on the hubris of the environmental flat earth no growth liberal nosy turds who are destroying business, industry, innovation, and the economy, for a lie. Too bad he didn’t riff on global warming. People who are screaming global warming will go down in history as the modern version of the “Flat [...]

My friend Lannie Garret gets away with murder in a red wig, crazy country western poodle skirt, singing and slinging her sometimes raunchy always hilarious comedy in a gin soaked basement – and you’ve got to see her do it! Lannie is a terrific singer and entertainer who nearly owns the City of Denver (she’s [...]

Tonight while talking with a client, I questioned her goal to earn $3-5 Million dollars in the next few years. What was driving her to that number? She mentioned growing up poor, and how she had always felt that a lot of money in the bank would allay the fear that quiet threat might cause. [...]

(scroll down and start the Elvis Costello music video – it makes a good audio backdrop to this story) It’s a quarter til midnight. It’s 18 degrees f and the inch-er-so of snow that fell last night in Denver squeaks and gives just a little under your tennis shoes. Mom and Dad and the SUV [...]