12 word posting – Where sloth meets self-promotion. How classy:
Me on Metro
The LP release
May 8, 2009
EP, below, came out last week. The LP just dropped here.
Twitdemic
April 30, 2009
Word of the swine flu’s global reach travels so quickly across the web, it’s enough to leave the pandemic-aspiring virus itself a little green with envy. Yet our shiny, digital messenger machine, when enlisted as weaponry in defence against the outbreak, comes with two sharp edges when in the hands of both the CDC and your paranoid, basement-dwelling set.
To wit, the Twit:
Exhibit A: As the UK’s Telegraph and other worldwide media outlets usefully inform, The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using Twitter to post their latest official news on the swine flu and direct people to helpful information. Perfect – the CDC leverages the hottest online social media site to calmly dispense up-to-date, informed advice on a legitimate world health threat to a rapidly growing base of followers.
Exhibit B (via Daniel Sung at TechdigestTV): Family man Steve Lange mind you, super-keen to take his new Twitter account for a spin, perhaps didn’t pause to consider just what he was contributing to the swine flu digital meme with this blood-in-the-streets-inducing nugget of wisdom:
You have failed us 03/16/09
March 16, 2009
Ok, so today I had the pleasure of going to my Yahoo home page and reading about fathers fathering daughters’ daughters, friends eating friends, and our economy sinking faster than the Star Sputtered Bungle.
I give Monday, March 16th, 2009 1,781 thumbs down and 47 F minuses. You are a creepy, pathetic, abject failure Monday, March 16th 2009. A sewer-sucking loser in a year chalk-full of 89-pound weaklings.
You are the 2008 Detroit Lions, Bill Buckner, Ziggy and Jeffery Dahmer all rolled into one Monday, March 16th, 2009.
Take a cold, hard look at yourself Monday, March 16th, 2009:
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Favourite pic I never meant to take
March 1, 2009
I really like this pic I took from my little digi. Of the dozens of images I recently downloaded off the camera, it’s of course the one mistake… sort of. I was following Lucy around in her ballet class and the flash kicked in about 5 seconds after I meant to take the pic. I’m fairly confident that falls in the category of the unintentional. This happens a lot I find - the best shots are ones you didn’t consciously know were there, especially images with movement.
ballet
Obama figures out YouTube inside 2 weeks…
November 18, 2008
Bush, 3 years and counting.
If you’re interrupting, get out of the way
October 12, 2008
Found this Wired blog, distinguishing advertising-world fact from fiction as it’s presented in the show ‘Mad Men’.
I found these 2 quotes from the agency head interviewed in the entry interesting. The first about Mad Men fictional agency Sterling Cooper’s pursuit of a piece of the the Space Race in the early 60s, and how advertising scored a seat at the adult table of man’s next great leap. Seems even more true today then in the 60s; consider the current US and Canadian election campaigns.
‘Marketers’ in one shape or another (the press, pr included) have of course always had a hand in shaping historical moments and figures into mythical and unifying cultural stories. It seems in this day and age, though, it’s become harder for the legend makers to control the myth, with the means of distributing the intended message now also in the hands of the mashup-happy chattering class. A double-edged sword for sure, sustaining the hero narrative is important and healthy for society. Think Neil Armstrong and Don Drysdale or Trudeau. Hitler not so much. Anyway, the quotes:
‘It used to be that advertising and politics were a lot more intertwined. Advertisers and politicians basically invented a new hero with the space race — it’s like they just invented baseball. When you introduce a new category of mass interest and entertainment, you increase the business opportunities for everyone.’
The other was this, it could apply well beyond advertising:
‘The internet has made it so that if you make genuinely interesting stuff, people will see it — no matter what the size of the company is. It’s going to put agencies out of a job that are only good at interrupting people on TV. In the age of “Mad Men” — basically, you could do advertising that wasn’t very good if you just repeated your message over and over and had good buys.’
Don’t forsake me good blog
October 6, 2008
Yes, I left you for the entire summer. But I had many pressing concerns on my mind , such as the purchasing, demolishing and patching up of the new house. This, along my young, go-go, family and quandries as to the next stage in my career left little room for blogging.
But I’m back, the rainy summer has turned to a crisp, sunny fall, and pigskin reigns supreme in my universe again. I’m totally obsessed with my yahoo! fantasy league pool. I spend hours weekly tinkering with my lineup for Sunday… leading to a 1-3 record so far. Tinkering, my achilles heel. tinkering leads to brilliant plans to remove Andre Johnson and Eli Manning from your lineup for Ike Hilliard and John Kitna. My kid’s favourite sock puppet, Mr. Blinkers, could have made a better knee-jerk call.
Other obessions: Odd career aspirations at the moment: 1) Tinkerer (no!) 2) Sheperd 3) Zen Master 4) NFL wide receiver 5) Exlporer. Problem is these just aren’t popping up in my Monster alerts. Must expand my net…. 6) Rodeo clown 7) Spy 
Barker 9) Bee keeper 10) Mentalist….
Any thing missing on that list?
Home, sweet demolished home
June 8, 2008
peek if you dare, this national tragedy reveals why renos are spooky.
http://flickr.com/photos/carpendium/sets/72157605500515256/
National Honky League teams vie for Stickleby Cup
May 17, 2008
NHL playoffs on flatscreen with HD PVR – beauty distraction from that ever-present 8-headed hydra of a home renovation o’ mine.
I absolutely love watching the Pens in particualr; nothing like witnessing a new dynasty emerge one period at a time. Hockey enters uncharted combined speed and skill terrain when Crosby, Malkin and Hossa unite in jaw-dropping fashion for achingly brief periods on the power play.
But of course nobody is watching outside of Pennsylvania and Michigan south of the 49th. Nothing new to report there. So when i saw this fantastic Onion article, riffing on America and their media’s complete lack of interest in the coolest game on Earth, it took me aback that anyone in States even had a decent reference point on the lowly stature of the NHL necessary for the bang-on satire (yes, even the Onion) that follows …
Stackley Cup Playoffs Underway
NEW YORK—The 2008 Stackley Cup Playoffs, a set of
odd-number-of-games series that will determine the champion of the
National Huckie League, are well underway, NHL Commissioner Gary
Bettman confirmed Monday.
At press time, the four hackley teams in contention for the
Stickleby Cup were the Detroit Red Wings, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the
Pittsburgh Flyers, and a team from Dallas, TX. The Red Wings, one of
the NHL’s Original Four Teams, and the Penguins, who feature one of
hinky’s rising young stars in Sidney Crossberry, are leading their
respective series and are expected to advance to the championship
round, or Storkaley Cup Finallys.
Hucklebee, which is played on ice by stick-wielding six-man teams
who attempt to strike the hokey puck or “ball” into the opposing goal,
is naturally a cold-weather sport. For this reason, hooky is believed
to have originated in Canada. This will be the first year since 2003
that no Canadian team will make it to the Shaklee Cup Finals, and no
Canadian team has won the Cup since 2003.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/stackley_cup_playoffs_underway
