I hate to post this on the day before Thanksgiving because a lot of people will miss it and it deserves to be seen.

I love doing radio. It’s a writer’s dream medium – all words, all your responsibility and all kinds of things you can do with even a small budget. But I also love doing it because the bar is set so low. 99% of radio is so amazingly bad, it’s tough not to do something that sounds good.

But there’s good and then there’s Bud Light’s Real Men of Genius. You know a radio campaign is great when my wife (who’s not in advertising) will shush me and turn up the radio just to hear a spot when it comes on the air. Not only did they do some incredible spots, they did more than 100 of them (which you can oh-so-thankfully hear here.)

Is it the greatest radio campaign of all time? I think you could make that argument.

Via.

Here’s three good reasons to be vegetarian:

1. It aligns with my ethics.
2. It’s good for the animals.
3. It’s good for the planet.

it's good for the planet, pic by sandcastlematt

It’s a win-win-win situation. So why wouldn’t I be vegetarian?

I love animals, dearly. I have difficulty killing spiders, flies, cockroaches and even mosquitos. Wherever possible, I transport them outside or away from where I am living so that they can go on their way. In theory, I subscribe to a ‘do no harm’ Buddhist philosophy.

Okay, in truth, if there are mosquitos buzzing around my head when I go to bed at night I do rather vigorously chase them down and kill them, smacking them into silence where they can neither bite me nor transmit diseases to me.

But I say sorry. Always. I hold remorse and sorrow that my actions have brought about a loss of life and I wish them well into the next life. Does that count for anything?

I am perfectly suited to being a vegetarian. But, so far, I physically have not been able to. I have a rap sheet of digestive issues and allergies that mean I can’t replace enough the necessary proteins that I need. I have tried to be vegetarian–many times. But I always get around two weeks in and feel decidedly ill: weak, incoherent, and craving serious protein. My mind and soul wish to be vegetarian; my body simply does not.

So how can i reconcile this fact? How do I manage being a partial meat eater when every sense and desire inside of me screams to live a life of compassion and ‘do no harm’?

          Alright guys, i got problems lmfao, i can never stay mad at vivi… So yeah you guessed it, we’re back to normal now. Well i’ve accepted her apology after i bitched for like a whilleee LMFAO uhm eh here’s how it went.

we’ve come to a day where everyone knows at least someone dying of cancer.

we’ve come to a day where a mother kills her children, a son kills his father and a man kills his brother…

we’ve come to a day of procrastinating, snoozing, and clubbing 24/7.

we’ve come to a day where i chat with my brother, sms my friend, and miss-call my mother.

2012… the end of the world, well i think not! the end of the world was yesterday, is today, and we’re still dying.

we’ve come to a day where everyone’s concerned with global warming and lining of the planets, instead of noticing that we are extinguishing ourselves with our own hands.

we’ve come to a day where we get to decide our lifetime on earth.

we’ve come to a day where we commit murder and suicide for love, revenge and money.

what happened to the goodness in people? what happened to: Today i wanna make someone happy? it is a small gesture, a little word or a good action that can make the difference.

i believe that good things happen to good people, or in a less euphoric world, treat people the way you like to be treated, be in 2 places at once if you can, because that’s how my friend we get to come to the day , where ‘the end of the world” does not exist (or doesn’t have a meaning for that matter!)

If you believe in Creation – you have been created with the ability to bear fruit.  You have been created with the ability for more.  Birds were created to make more birds.  Whales were created to make more whales.  Apple trees were created to make more apple trees.  Pretty much, I can keep going and list every single thing and it has the potential for creating more or creating something.

Man and woman were created to procreate, but men and women were also created with the ability to create as well – maybe not to create out of nothing – but definitely the ability to create from things already created.  You and I have the capability and ability to create and even enjoy creation.  You and I have been created to create – art, music, ideas, and so many other things.  You can do things with rocks, paint, twigs, logs, sticks, and whatever you can get your hands on to create.

In Genesis 1 and 2, everything was created and it was all considered good.  There’s nothing in the creation story that says that it became bad.  There was a relationship in the creation story (chap 3) that ends in emnity between God and man, but there wasn’t anything in the story that says that creation has become bad.  Tell me if I’m wrong, but it is still good.  Your experience of creation is good.  The whole earth is filled with his glory.  The rocks cry out in worship.  The heavens declare the glory of God.

You have been created to create, and you need to do so with the goodness of all that is created.  Hang out in the goodness of creation.

There

I should stop trying to think of a cool title for these, because I never stay on topic or even related to the topic of the title. So… whatever.
Quick update really.
- School is going well, it isn’t horrid on the same level as the other school.
- One of “The Victors” and I play M.A.S.H a lot. Which passes the day.
- I think I am coming down with some kind of cold/flu but… oh well.
- Hm. I guess I am kind of learning from Jake again. I mean he and I are talking a lot now, and
one it is nice to be… I guess close again. I mean, it is kind of fun to reflect on all the stuff (good and bad) that we share. Which is good, because I remember all the stupid stuff I did, and I can kind of keep a mental note to avoid repeating those kind of things with Alex.
- I don’t know. In general I have been feeling better, and even when I am not in the mood to be dealing with life, at least I don’t like… feel… trapped. I feel okay, and I know it will pass.
Many lessons learned for sure.

Dancing With the Stars cross over with the Biggest Loser. Yup, that is the show I want to see and I want to see how fast te weight falls off!  

…I give you Morphine.

Imagine holding your Thanksgiving dinner in the back  of a bar. As Dad carves up the turkey, cigarette smoke wafts around the room. There is an extreme sense of stillness and quiet in the room that mingles with low tenor saxophones playing in the opposite corner. It’s dark – past two a.m., and there’s a guy who’s been staring at you all night long. The place was packed with bodies and vitality at one point, but is now empty.

Now, why you’re having your Thanksgiving dinner in a bar, I can’t say, and I certainly don’t recommend it. However this is a brief glimpse into how it feels to experience the great 90’s band Morphine. Their sound arose from the alleyways of Boston and slowly crept across the country. It was a truly innovative blend of rock roots and jazz elements that steered away from guitar-centric song composing.

Morphine

The band was led by the dark voice of Mark Sandman, who joined together with his college roommate, Dana Colley, to form the band in 1989. A typical morphine song featured Sandman on his 2-string slide bass, Colley on tenor or bari sax, and then Billy Conway or Jerome Dupree (depending on the era) on drums.

But makes the band so unique is the melancholy that they were able to capture in their music. Their first album, Good, was released in 1992, and was met with some acclaim. The second song on that album is called “The Saddest Song”, where the chorus is “My biggest fear is/If I let you go/ You’ll come and get me in my sleep.”

They soon began to branch out, however, adding more layers and more complex ideas to their work – a particular favorite of mine being “Early to Bed”  off of Like Swimming (1997) which I posted on the blog last month. The video for this song is particularly worth checking out – with the three band members operating scaled-up versions of their faces from in their own heads. It’s pretty meta.

But Morphine’s most staggering album came at the end of the band’s career. February 1st 2000 saw the release of The Night. The range that Morphine covers on this record is incredible. For me, the song with the most force is the title track. Although this song is more subdued than the rest on the album, it holds a passion behind that explodes from its restraints. Sandman sings

“You’re the night, Lilah
A little girl lost in the woods
You’re a folktale
The unexplainable
You’re a bedtime story
The one that keeps the curtains closed”

The next big ticket number is “Souvenir” which has the slickest bass and drums I’ve ever heard. “Souvenir” is coupled back-to-back with “Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer” both of which have incredible harmonized sax sections.

After that comes “Like a Mirror”. I remember being blown away by this song the first time I heard it – the refrain goes: “I’m a mirror, I’m a mirror, I’m nothing ’till you look at me.” This song, more than any other typifies Morphine’s ability to create an atmosphere

Sandman, left, and Colley, right.

But this story doesn’t have a happy ending – Sandman passed away in June of 2009. While performing at the Nel Nome del Rock festival in Italy,  he had a heart attack on stage and died soon thereafter. Colley and Dupree stuck together for a little while to raise funds for the charity they started the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund. They returned to Nel Nome del Rock in 2009 as Members of Morphine to honor the tenth anniversary of Sandman’s death.

Ok, so that got a little more dark that I meant it to be, but Morphine is all about facing dark topics head on. And so should you as well.

So if the typical holiday music fare seems too banal this year, try putting on some Morphine for your friends and family, if nothing else, they’ll think you have an exquisite taste in music. But in all seriousness, this band is one of the most unique groups to come out of the 90’s and if you haven’t heard of them you should definitely take a listen.

Oh, and good news! As it turns out, turkey has no more tryptophan than other meats – so that itis is completely imaginary – just like the state of Nebraska.

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PEAK KEYWORD: Itis

ladies and gentlemen, meet Renetto, you might know him, he’s a youtube star from columbus:

HOLY SHIT!  WATCH THIS VIDEO!  the problem with youtube is the same problem with columbus, the “have-alots” are fucking everything up for artists and the entire artistic community, fuck the establishment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAKE UP ARTISTS!  THE PEOPLE YOU “ELECT” TO OFFICE AND THE DUMBASSES THAT THEY HIRE DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU!  THE LOCAL MEDIA IS IN THEIR POCKETS AND DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU EITHER!  anything they say is just lip service and the facts support this…

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Also called as Aakaash (space) Mudra.

Keyword for this Mudra is “expand”.

• This Mudra activates Jupiter inside you and brings abundance in your life.
• It will expand your horizon and get wider views of life and you will become a good judge of the life’s events.
• The teacher in you will be activated too.
• Person who is mean minded and selfish will become broad minded and selfless.
• This generates blue energy and thus activates throat Chakra.

Chant Bija Mantra “Om Hum Namaha” while doing this Mudra.

Touch the middle finger with thumb on both the hands

Même s’il a l’air super intéressant, pas besoin de voir le documentaire de Chris Rock pour s’apercevoir que désormais, les perruques fleurissent sur les têtes des filles comme des mauvaises herbes entre les dalles d’une terrasse à la campagne.

Qu’elles soient connues (ou non), belles (ou non), adeptes de la frange (ou… bref), les femmes modernes aiment se rajouter sur le crâne des cheveux en poils de cheval ou des mèches d’hindoue domestiquée, pour un résultat plus ou moins réussi (Emilie de Secret Story, si tu nous lis).

Alors au risque de briser vos illusions, mais dans un souci de vous éviter une mauvaise surprise la prochaine fois que vous passerez la main dans la crinière de votre future conquête, voici une sélection de perruques (baptisées “wig” aux Etats-Unis) et de vrais cheveux, mais qu’on aurait aimé voir recouverts d’extensions capillaires synthétiques pour le coup. A vous de reconnaître ce qui est vrai… ou non.

Alors, oui ou wig?

Beyoncé:

Serena Williams:

Somaya Reece (la nouvelle meuf de Joe Budden, qui se fait pas chier l’enfoiré):

Gabby:

Halle Berry et Tyra Banks:

Foxy Brown:

Diana Ross:

Snoop Dogg:

Andre Agassi:

Le cousin gay de T-Pain et Sébastien Folin:

La fille de Kelly Rowland:

“Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising,” right? But I think this laptop steering wheel desk is doing a pretty good job of killing itself. BrandFreak has the whole story, but check out some of the comments on Amazon.

“Wow is this thing great! I use it as a “mini-bar” when the friends and I go out to the bars. I can quickly fix multiple shots of tequila for myself and the friends as we drive from one bar to the next. We also discovered that if you place a pillow on top of it and turn on the cruise control you can catch quick naps on the interstate.”

“One cautionary note: be careful of those jerks that stop at yellow lights, my poor mother rear ended one and the airbag drove the desk back into her stomach which ruptured her spleen…”

Only 172 of the 291 reviews are 5-star though. A 1-star reviewer noted that it’s “A little too flimsy for my 52″ LCD.”

If you’re looking for the best laugh of the day, the comments are waiting.

A couple days ago, I recommended the dark Firefox theme Black Stratini. I recommended it too quickly because I've already found a better dark theme called RulerDark; RulerDark simply has higher aesthetic value than Black Stratini – I also like how the font-color is not overly dark like it is in Black Stratini (which makes it difficult to read what's typed on the screen at times.)

Anyway, be sure to check RulerDark out!

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so this is my first post on this blog
i’m going to try to post on here a lot
i miss writing
this first post is going to be sort of a long one
you don’t have to read it all
i’m writing this more for me than anyone else
it gives me a sense of comfort to write out my thoughts
i like being able to look back  on them in the future
so the thoughts begin…

i’m going to be a copywriter
this became clear to me today when i visited the creative circus
the creative circus is a portfolio school in atlanta
i’ve been thinking about going there after i graduate from uga this coming may
if i want to go into creative in the advertising industry, i pretty much have to go to a portfolio school to hone my skills
initially i thought that i was going to go and study art direction or design[making the art in ads] in a portfolio school
when i was sitting in on a class today at the circus, i realized that i want to do copywriting

it’s not just that i want to do it
i know i can do it
with art direction and design, i really wanted to do it, but i didn’t know if i was skilled enough
with copywriting, i’m completely confident i can be successful at it
i’ve always loved writing
it’s how i deal with things, good and bad
i used to write lyrics/poems in high school
i started a book 2 summers ago
so i’ve always had a love for writing, and i feel like my creativity comes out of me in the form of words
my favorite part about creating ads is putting together the copy
so it just makes sense that i’d be a copywriter
it’s a sense of relief knowing what i want to do
not having a doubt about it
it’s awesome
i know what i want to do with my life for the first time ever
it took 22 years and almost 8 months to happen
i’ve always had no idea what i wanted to do for sure
i never felt good about a major in college
i was good at different things, but i never had the desire to make careers out of them
it’s different with copywriting
i get excited when i think about doing it as a profession
it fits well
if any of you know fay fay
you know that when he and i are together, we make up very random stories on the spot and add to them spontaneously
well that’s what i’d be doing when i’m coming up with copy for ads
it seems perfect for me

well
that’s about all i have to say about that
it was an epiphany for me
i had a couple epiphanies today
that was a huge one
the other was that i don’t need chicago
some of you might know that  i went to chicago recently to visit advertising agencies
i absolutely loved it
since i got back, i’ve been very focused on somehow getting back there to live
whether it be after i graduate or after portfolio school
it’s what i’ve been planning on/working towards
today when i was driving around atlanta, it hit me that i don’t need chicago
with the relationships[girlfriend, friends, family] that i have, i’d be content anywhere
realizing this today was big for me
i was focusing on the wrong thing

i think that’s all i have to say tonight
this was a long post
it was also a serious post
don’t expect them all to be long or serious
it’s very very unlikely that will occur

night night,
billiam

Terrapin Side Project #7 Maggie's Farmhouse Ale

Name: Side Project #7 Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale

Style: Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Brewery: Terrapin Beer Company  website

Country: USA

Region: Athens, Georgia

ABV: 6.0%

How served: 22 oz capped bomber poured into a Boulevard Smokestack Series glass. 

My Overall Opinion: Good

I paired this beer with: Steamed salmon, couscous & asparagus.

Tasted on: Monday  November 23, 2009

Note:  This is a limited one time batch brew.  This was volume 7 in what so far has 9 volumes.

 From their website:  Welcome to the next version of Terrapin’s Side Project series of beers. Volume #7 “Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale.” Brewing this style of beer was as exciting as it was challenging because of it’s high fermentation temp. (90 F) and its finicky yeast strain. You’ll get all the aroma and flavors you’d expect from a farmhouse ale out of Maggie’s. The nose is a combination of grassy and spicy yeasty notes with an underlying bready earthiness character. The flavor is slightly sweet up front with a tartness in the middle followed with a white pepper/tart finish. Maggie’s offers the beer lover an old world style that is very pleasing to drink by itself or paired with fine foods. Cheers! Spike

Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale:

ABV: 6.0%

IBUs: 25

O.G.: 14.7

F.G.: 3.6

Malts: 2-Row Malt, Vienna, Rye, Wheat, Flaked Oats, Acidulated

Hops: Super Styrian, East Kent Golding, Hallertau Hersbrucker

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Duo join forces to bring series to screen

Variety/Cynthia Littleton—It’s a potent combination: Stephen + Steven

Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King’s just-released supernatural thriller “Under the Dome.” DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. DreamWorks principal Stacey Snider was key in bringing the project to the company. Spielberg, King and Snider will exec produce along with DreamWorks TV chiefs Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. The book, which has earned strong reviews as a return to form for the prolific author, revolves around the drama that unfolds after an invisible force field suddenly descends on a small vacation town in Maine. As the locals fight for their survival, the town descends into warring factions led by enigmatic characters.

DreamWorks is starting to meet with writers for the project. The plan is to set a writer before shopping the skein to prospective buyers.

Spielberg and King have worked together in the past, developing a screen adaptation of King’s 1984 novel “The Talisman,” on which Spielberg has had the option for more than 20 years. That project has been developed as a feature, and it came close to being done as a mini for TNT a few years ago until it was tabled for budgetary reasons.

The “Dome” deal continues a burst of activity on the smallscreen side for Spielberg and DreamWorks TV. Among the high-profile projects in the works is a series about the development of a fictional Broadway tuner for Showtime. Another Showtime contender is a costume-drama revolving around the Borgia clan, penned by Neil Jordan and with Robert Zemeckis also producing.

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