Category: In the media

  • Thank you for watching my TEDx Talk.

    Thank you for watching my TEDx Talk.

    I was invited to speak at TEDxVienna 2022. What an amazing experience—a thrill and a privilege. The talk was called “How to Find Attention, Mindfulness, and Creativity in the Ordinary”. It was all about paying attention and “collecting with photography”, framing these activities as a way to use and grow your attention and mindfulness, and […]

  • We’re on The New Yorker’s ‘100 Best Lists of all Time’

    We’re on The New Yorker’s ‘100 Best Lists of all Time’

    Check it out: The New Yorker made a list of the 100 best lists of all time and our “The Ultimatest Grocery List” made the cut. Woot! Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

  • TV and radio and oddities

    TV and radio and oddities

    Putting the “me” in media. Plus some other stuff.

  • ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ recap

    ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ recap

    A quick rundown of the JKL experience…

  • Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 1

    Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 1

    Not much else to say besides, “HOLY COW.”

  • ‘The Curators’ by Coudal Partners

    Coming soon to theaters? Maybe not, but it’s double awesome nonetheless.

  • Shop Smart: The Ultimatest Grocery List in Woman’s Day magazine

    Everyone loves this grocery list.

  • The Wall Street Journal: Want to Save? Put It on the List

    The Ultimatest Grocery List, a downloadable PDF shopping list that I made for the book and have available at grocerylists.org, made it into the sidebar on this Wall Street Journal story about the economy and making lists: You know times are hard when the shopping list makes a comeback. As the recession takes hold, consumers […]

  • The GLC on The VSL

    Cool. We got a little mention on the very awesome Very Short List!

  • Me on KMOX again!

    Hey St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest — I’ll be interviewed on KMOX Radio (AM 1120) today, July 27, around 8:45 a.m. I’ll be on with Debbie Monterrey and Dan Grey on the Total Information AM Show, talking about Milk Eggs Vodka, of course.

  • Grocery lists in Advertising Age

    Check out this excellent column in this week’s Advertising Age: Paper Trail: What Grocery Lists Reveal About Shoppers by Lenore Skenazy. It’s all about my new book, “Milk Eggs Vodka,” and this little web site right here.

  • Hello Tampa!

    Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune wrote a great article about me and my new grocery lists book. Check it out: Making A List, Checking It Twice. Awesome. You can see the actual front page of the food section here at my Milk Eggs Vodka blog.

  • Interview with Grocery List Collector Bill Keaggy

    Hey everyone! Marty over at Ephemera, a site about “exploring the world of old paper,” interviewed me about found grocery lists and my upcoming book, Milk Eggs Vodka. You can read the interview here.

  • Why the hell not?

    Hello friends of Dave Barry! Glad to have you, take a look around.

  • Finders keepers, losers weepers?

    The GLC got a very quick mention in the Boston Globe last week: “Finders keepers, losers weepers? Not any more — Web’s lost and found has broad sweep, local appeal.”

  • And ye shall know us by the lists we make

    “A crop of Web sites allows people to create and share lists on everything from a baby’s nap schedule to an action-figure collection. Following are five sites that aim to help people get organized.” This article also mentions a couple list-related books that are in the works, including mine!

  • MAKING LISTS

    The Kansas City Star writes about lists, and mentions my upcoming book: “A range of companies, including Amazon.com, book publishers, stationery makers and Internet sites, are pushing new products aimed at the growing appetite for list-making. In the next year publishing houses will roll out at least eight books of lists. One will feature images […]

  • Number 1 among the plethora of lists?

    “Want to put together an insider’s rating for refrigerator magnets? It’s been done. Hope to assemble the all-time most intriguing items that ever appeared on a grocery list? That’s been done, too. In fact, it’s a 240-page book. ‘Milk Eggs Vodka,’ by Bill Keaggy will be published by HOW Books in a few months, based […]

  • The Way We List Now

    Hey, today’s Wall Street Journal has a great article about lists and mentions my upcoming book in the sidebar: “After finding a discarded grocery list outside a supermarket 10 years ago, St. Louis-based photographer Bill Keaggy began a collection, and he now has more than 1,000. His book is divided into chapters, like lists that […]

  • This site: Inspiring or insipid?

    Option A: Inspired, at CRUMLEYdotORG: “The day we left for Mississippi I received a gift I had purchased for myself: No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. My book is even autographed by Miss Maggie herself. This is a variation on number 44: Take Inventory. In the suggestion she […]