From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Black Friday: Death and Savings -or- The Running of the Savages

November 30, 2008

When is a deal a great deal? When you trample a Walmart employee to death to get it. Last year, I wrote a short piece called Black Friday: More Insane Than Ever. My chief complaints were that stores were going to be opening at 4am and that Lowe’s had their Christmas displays up in early [...]

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The Friday Podcast with Andrew Wee

November 22, 2008

Earlier this week, I was a guest on Andrew Wee’s Friday Podcast, which was posted to his website last night. Andrew is an internet marketer and blogger and one heck of an interviewer as well. I had a great time, though I think that once you start listening, you’ll get that I don’t have any [...]

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New Guns N’ Roses… Meh.

November 21, 2008

Two GNR-related posts in one week? Let me see… yeah, there’s my picture… there’s my logo… this is definitely my website. Huh. Whaddayaknow?
My initial reaction to hearing the new Guns N’ Roses tracks was a definitive “meh”. I wasn’t impressed, and my expectations were close to zero. I heard about it, coincidentally, on the night [...]

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Mr. Brownstone on the Late Show with David Letterman

November 20, 2008

Last week I got a message from my mother, saying that she had talked to my Aunt Pam. The big news was that my cousin, Drew, was going to be on the Late Show with David Letterman with his band! Now, Drew is in a project called Takka Takka, and my first thought – since [...]

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Commercials Need to Follow Program Standards

November 7, 2008

I’m watching Nick Jr. with my three year old daughter right now, and I have a question. Since when is it okay for the between-show commercials on Nick Jr. to market hair care products on the premise that they will make your hair “sexy”? Now, I’m no prude. I don’t think that children of all [...]

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My Super Short Thoughts on the Election

November 5, 2008

1. For about a month or so leading up to the election, I had the graphic you see to the left in the sidebar of this site. Of course, I’m not so foolish as to believe that the tens of visitors I get on a daily basis would be influenced by it enough to change [...]

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