What is yelp? Yelp means frat boys playing business long enough to build a psuedo hipster social fan club group of alcoholic scenesters so that they can, as the bouncers did to them, say “no, you (more…)
Flock to Blog to Twitter Test
5 years ago wouldn’t have made sense 10 years even less sense. I wonder if it makes any know.
Malice Aforethought or The Economist helps break into the psychology of horror films.
I am too tired for some rambling espousal on the nature of horror film and the curiosity of how the human condition is entrenched in tragedy and pain… and why we all want to watch. BUT….. PAIN IS (more…)
Social Media Review Sites = a tool for fetid, fettered people that are sad about their lives and wish to take it out on businesses.
This is wholly hypothetical. This is my ode to 80% of people who are on user generated travel or peer review sites. This has nothing to do with anyone or anything, and was written esoterically (more…)
Vinyl, Wax, Records… whatever.
Where does the time go? A wayward lunch hour led me to an exchange of misprinted vinyl… and 40 minutes in the meter turns into another 20 with a race to beat the meter maid while accidently freaking (more…)
Singles in bars with creaking gatefolds and panicky dust.
Singles belong in bars. That’s a fact. Or on http://match.com. True. But bars are measures aren’t they? They belong in songs. Songs belong on albums. Albums belong on my shelf… with gatefolds (more…)
Santa killed God, Agnostic Atheism, and bittersweet mortality
I think I am agnostic as of late. “Agnostic Atheist†to be precise…. But it still means I am moving on that grand scale of belief systems. At the age of 6 or 7 when I figured out Santa, I simply (more…)
Music. Have some.
“cannot believe that was Leon leading us on bicycle races through the Hill at 3 in the morning? getting Johnny so blitzed that all he could say when we parted ways was “dude, i gotta go to new york now”. (more…)
NYE at the Fireside Bar with Fishbits, Otamu, and Justin
Jim, Justin and I will be dj’ing the fireside for NYE. We have no real plans yet, as we were slackin’ per usual. I cannot even tell you who I sent this out to… sheesh. SO… it will be from 10p (more…)
Facebook, Marketing, Memes. Fishbits, round two.
[WARNING: DISGUSTING CYNICISM AHEAD. I JUST TALK ABOUT IT TO MAKE IT AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE] It might be the most important marketing tool in the history of business. This is what I would (more…)