Adventures in Videotaping
Originally Posted to Blogger – Thursday, August 03, 2006
For every fifty days I spend sitting on my ass in the office glued to the computer screen futzing with pixels and endless lines of code, I get the out of the ordinary, kinda wacky day. If you’ve read my entry about the porn store excursion, you have an idea how wacky.
Our titular character, Cornbread, next to the trailer and in front of a storage shed destroyed by our recent midwest storms.
One of my goals with our Interactive (ie web) department at Emmis has been to move us into the realm of video. We haven’t had much opportunity to do this before, lacking equipment and training and budgets and those sorts of things. Fortunately, in another department we have a talented guy named Jim who has some pretty excellent video production skills and has also been pushing to do some film work in house. We joined forces to work on a project tentatively titled “Cornbread’s Big Pointfest Adventure”.
Read MoreYou’re Beautiful, Kelly Clarkson
Originally Posted to Blogger – Wednesday, August 02, 2006
I heard recently that Kelly Clarkson had signed an endorsement deal with Vitamin Water, but the company was refusing to pay her or use her services until she dropped 10-15 pounds. The flavored water-ish distributor has a health-oriented image to maintain, (you know, that’s why they aligned themselves with rapstar 50 Cent – feuding with other rappers and getting shot 9 times just screams healthy) so a “fat” Clarkson was unsuitable for their campaign.
Beyond her considerable singing abilities, I admire Kelly for being a “real” girl in an industry of finger-gagging waifs and no-talent plastic drama queens. She’s girl-next-door pretty, goofy and fun in interviews, and has never lost that beautiful junk-in-the-trunk.
Read MoreConversations on a train
From MySpace blog: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Friday, on the east-bound Metrolink train, I’m standing at the folding doors waiting to disembark. A small group of African-American children crowd in around me. One lad, with mischievious eyes and a cherubic smile, steps up beside me and waves.
Lad: “Hi! My name’s Leon. I’m 12 years old and in the 7th grade.” Pause for dramatic effect and then, with gusto: “And I’m black.”
I appraise him with arched eyebrow and ask, “Really?”
His grin broadens. “Yeah.”
“Huh,” I say, and return the smile. “Neat!”
He laughs, the train stops at the Fairview Heights station, and we’re off.
/// Watching “Darkness” starring Anna Paquin (and mentally snoring)
Read MoreBush renews fight against gay marriage
From MySpace blog: Monday, June 05, 2006
President Bush and Senate conservatives are working to push through a constitutional amendment designed to ban same-sex marriage. The amendment has a slim chance of passage, lacking enough supporters to raise the required 2/3 vote. It serves as an opportunity for Bush’s followers to strengthen their anti-gay (oh, is that too strong a term?) stance to draw support for upcoming elections.
The majority of Democrats and many Moderate Republicans oppose the amendment, citing it as pandering to the religious right, clearly bigoted or simply unnecessary.
Read Moreand I never even knew…
From MySpace blog: Monday, May 29, 2006
This morning, I wondered when I would hear about my class reunion. It’s been ten years, and I figured it had to happen soon. I’m not really interested in going, but that doesn’t mean I’m not curious.
So, as coincidences go, I check my email this evening, and I’ve got a message from a Liz Lunk, which totally looks like a spam email to me, a name I don’t know. But the subject line was ‘class of 96 reunion coming soon’, and I realize it’s my old classmate Liz Hoffman (apparently now Lunk).
I open it, expecting the full rundown on the reunion. Instead, the first part of the email, in rather casual verbage, informed me that my classmate John Law passed away this weekend, after losing a battle with leukemia. I never even knew he had this ailment until today.
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