Does anyone else think it’s weird that the pope is riding around New York behind bullet-proof glass in a Popemobile? What’s he afraid of, being assassinated? Weren’t, like, all the apostles, John the Baptist, and Jesus himself assassinated?
Or maybe he’s just worried someone will touch the hem of his garment?
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A coworker got an email from her mom today asking “Are you an emo?”
To which she responded “what do you think goths become when they grow up?”
So true. (and, if you were wondering, I think the question may have stemmed from said mother and daughter’s recent and unfortunate dalliance with My Chemical Romance)
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Quote of the week goes to my wife, who’s a vice president at a certain bankrupted-then-bought Wall Street company that’s waiting for the takeover bid to go through:
“I left work today at 3:30. I was done reading my blogs, so I left.”
Why can’t MY company go bankrupt?!
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Mere’s been doing really well on AmieStreet.com since uploading our tracks on Monday, culminating in our album actually being featured on the site’s homepage today. Songs on AmieStreet start out costing nothing, and the price only goes up as demand increases. So our Switches & Dials album was around $1.50 on Monday, $2.75 last night, and today it’s up to $4.15. That’s a pretty good deal on a whole album though…it’s $9.99 on iTunes.
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I typically hate shirts with words on them. They’re all too clever or ironic or kitschy or snarky. I have a “Gettin’ Lucky in Kentucky” shirt, but only I wear it as a post-ironic statement about T-shirts that say “Gettin’ Lucky in Kentucky” (plus it’s my favorite color). That said, if I were to wear funny T-shirts with words on them, TorsoPants.com is definitely where I’d get them.
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Wanna know why no one cares about March Madness anymore this year? Who wants to see FOUR No. 1 seeds get into the Final Four? I mean, come on…can’t we leave a wildcard spot open for an underdog? (Mathmatically, no, we can’t.)
Sure, NC versus Kansas will be great basketball, and granted, it’ll have more emotion than any NBA game ever, but No. 1 seeds were invented so we’d always have a team to root against. When the Final Four underdog went 30-1 in the regular season, that’s a non-compelling plot arc for a tournament.
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Overheard in the office: “Being sober made me join Twitter!” [Think you've got that backwards...]
Overheard on my way out of the MediaBistro party on Wednesday:
Editorial Assistant 1: [referring to Laurel Touby] “She hugged me! Like, a real hug!!“
Editorial Assistant 2: “That’s soooo cool!!!“
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Here’s the clip of me on CBS News tonight…I was hoping they’d use the footage of me posting the previous post to my website, but no luck. I typed the post in Blogger and pubbed it to show how easy it is to do something useful with a domain name once you’ve bought it; just type some words, hit “Publish Post,” and watch them pop up on the website.
Still, that previous entry is totally post-post modern: a blog post about a news segment of me blogging about a news segment about the Internet. Heavy stuff, man. Heavy stuff.
(and no, I didn’t know I was going to be on TV when I put that shirt on this morning)
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Just a little post for CBS to use in their video segment on buying domain names. Hopefuilly they’ll use it on tv!! It’d be great to have kylemonson.com get its first tv appearance to show how easy it actually is to set up a website.
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Seriously, why does every journalist, blogger, columnist, etc. have to throw editorial judgment to the wind on the 1st of April and publish “funny” prank posts? Nothing I came across today merited as much as a snicker, but I got tons of e-mails and news tips today that were qualified with “I don’t think it’s an April Fool’s Day joke…”–and with more than one we never did find out for certain. It’s as if the internet isn’t full of lies the other 365 days of 2008.
Next year, I’m going to unplug from the Web for a day and go throw a pie at someone instead. Now that’s comedy!
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