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May 5, 2014
"Use All The Crayons!" YouTube promo (behind the scenes)!
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First off, I think our my initial mistake was having Dave Carfang and I appear as ourselves in the “Use All The Crayons!” FAQ video we produced and posted last week.
We should have hired actors.
I’m thinking Morgan Freeman for me and Ellen DeGeneres for Dave.
Having the great Freeman, an Oscar-winning 76-year-old African-American, play me, a white 51-year-old blogger/
First off, I think our my initial mistake was having Dave Carfang and I appear as ourselves in the “Use All The Crayons!” FAQ video we produced and posted last week.
We should have hired actors.
I’m thinking Morgan Freeman for me and Ellen DeGeneres for Dave.
Having the great Freeman, an Oscar-winning 76-year-old African-American, play me, a white 51-year-old blogger/
May 4, 2014
Sunday encore! "The i's of my Apples!"
This one debuted about two years ago. I like it because I believe I exhausted every single iConic use of the now uBiquitous affectation.
Tomorrow I’ll be writing about the behind-the-scenes production travails of my latest YouTube video, this one filmed by and voice over co-starring my bartender, Pond owner Dave Carfang.
Have a great day!
Does anyone know what the “i” in iPod,
Tomorrow I’ll be writing about the behind-the-scenes production travails of my latest YouTube video, this one filmed by and voice over co-starring my bartender, Pond owner Dave Carfang.
Have a great day!
Does anyone know what the “i” in iPod,
May 2, 2014
Scattered thoughts on Derby Day weekend
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That I haven’t golfed yet this year will be rectified Sunday when a buddy of mine comes to Latrobe to visit. He’s the second most impressive person I know and if he ever wins four Masters championships he can be considered for the top tier right along side Arnold Palmer.
He’s the retired captain of a United States Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile destroyer. He was
That I haven’t golfed yet this year will be rectified Sunday when a buddy of mine comes to Latrobe to visit. He’s the second most impressive person I know and if he ever wins four Masters championships he can be considered for the top tier right along side Arnold Palmer.
He’s the retired captain of a United States Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile destroyer. He was
May 1, 2014
The Bonfire of the NBA Vanities
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Well, it looks like I actually do have something in common with billionaire racist Donald Sterling: neither of us will ever attend an NBA game for as long as we live.
We’re both prejudiced.
He shuns minorities. I shun expensive sporting events sure to bore me.
There are many questions. The one I would most like to hear Sterling answer is, “Sir, you dislike associating
Well, it looks like I actually do have something in common with billionaire racist Donald Sterling: neither of us will ever attend an NBA game for as long as we live.
We’re both prejudiced.
He shuns minorities. I shun expensive sporting events sure to bore me.
There are many questions. The one I would most like to hear Sterling answer is, “Sir, you dislike associating
April 30, 2014
April tweets of the month
Some good ones here and my twitter numbers are up. I have 257 followers at 8days2amish and follow 113. So my numbers could be higher, I’m sure, but I’m odd about whom I decide follow. First, you need to tweet regularly, but I don’t like it if you tweet too much. I follow some people that only have four or five other followers, but shun some for having tens of thousands.
I put a priority on
I put a priority on
April 29, 2014
On the road again; My Western PA day-long Rotarian Tour rocks!
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I wrote last week about how Bruce Springsteen flies a private jet home after gigs so precious can sleep on his own pillow. Tramps like, him, baby were born to skip long TSA security checkpoints.
I don’t begrudge him his imperial trappings, but I’m sure even he is self-deprecating enough to know indulging them sets him up for snark attacks from jealous guys like me
See I’m
I wrote last week about how Bruce Springsteen flies a private jet home after gigs so precious can sleep on his own pillow. Tramps like, him, baby were born to skip long TSA security checkpoints.
I don’t begrudge him his imperial trappings, but I’m sure even he is self-deprecating enough to know indulging them sets him up for snark attacks from jealous guys like me
See I’m
April 28, 2014
My new MicroTouch One razor!
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I don’t remember my Daddy ever teaching me how to shave. That doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t. I just don’t remember it.
But he’d revel in all the Daddy duties so maybe he did.
I remember him teaching me how to throw a baseball, ride my banana seat bike, swing a golf club and make my very first boneheaded wager with the neighborhood bookie down Tony’s barbershop.
But
I don’t remember my Daddy ever teaching me how to shave. That doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t. I just don’t remember it.
But he’d revel in all the Daddy duties so maybe he did.
I remember him teaching me how to throw a baseball, ride my banana seat bike, swing a golf club and make my very first boneheaded wager with the neighborhood bookie down Tony’s barbershop.
But
April 27, 2014
Re-Run Sunday: A story on dots, points & periods
It doesn’t happen all that often, but it always pleases me when it does. It’s when this January ’12 pops up. I just loved this one because I could take the tiniest and most inconsequential objects and take it apart and elevate it to something hyper significant.
Am I wrong? See for yourself.
What’s the difference between a dot, a point and a period?
That may sound like the set-up to
Am I wrong? See for yourself.
What’s the difference between a dot, a point and a period?
That may sound like the set-up to
April 25, 2014
Cliven Bundy & my last Klan rally
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For reasons pertaining to the preservation of my sanity, I’ve pretty much ditched watching either of the opinion news networks on the right or the left. I’m convinced the only way they thrive is to keep their viewers angry and stupid.
Stupid I can do all on my own. In fact, what’s truly surprising is that I’m not by now my own cable network. There’s an enormous appetite for
For reasons pertaining to the preservation of my sanity, I’ve pretty much ditched watching either of the opinion news networks on the right or the left. I’m convinced the only way they thrive is to keep their viewers angry and stupid.
Stupid I can do all on my own. In fact, what’s truly surprising is that I’m not by now my own cable network. There’s an enormous appetite for
April 24, 2014
The good, the bad & and the Springsteen show
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You’d think by now I’d know better than to try and make even a modest profit from spare tickets to a marquee event. It only, for me at least, leads to costly misery.
You may remember I’m one of the few men or women on Earth who’s been arrested for trying to scalp/dump pre-season Steeler tickets for $25 less than face value (see below).
What happened again Tuesday prior to the
You’d think by now I’d know better than to try and make even a modest profit from spare tickets to a marquee event. It only, for me at least, leads to costly misery.
You may remember I’m one of the few men or women on Earth who’s been arrested for trying to scalp/dump pre-season Steeler tickets for $25 less than face value (see below).
What happened again Tuesday prior to the
