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Nevertheless, I missed the debate and found this to be a great recap. Enjoy!
They freeze-framed on the perfect expression to get the laugh.
Then again, there's always the mass media to contend with. Already liberal-skewing, according to the conservatives, and not restricted to saying what the Republicans want them to say, McCain now risks comments like Dave's, below:
So wait, McCain should keep campaigning, even though the nation's in crisis? Is that sort of like how I keep coming to work, even when the tiles have fallen off the wall in our shower at home and our house needs a ton of work before we put it on the market in a few months? Or how my wife still takes the girls to ballet class even when she has a cold? Or how both of us do the day-to-day stuff that needs to get done, even when we have other emergencies pop up, like cars breaking down, illness, etc.?
I know I'm oversimplifying things, but dude needs to learn to multitask if he's going to lead the free world. If you need to be in Washington to work on saving the nation, I can get behind that. But maybe you could do the debate that night, from DC? Or maybe the debate now becomes a perfect opportunity to present your economic plan to the nation? After working on a bailout plan behind closed doors with Congress and the Pres, why not discuss it on network television Friday night? Sounds like a great opportunity to talk about real issues while you work to fix them.
Come on, McCain. You can do better than this.
1. I was on my way to work this morning when I got an email on my blackberry. It was from the person in charge of tracking our traffic on the websites. She had one question:
"Are there any viral videos on tbs.com?"
Seriously? Are there still people out there who don't know that a "viral video" is an organic happenstance, not a category you assign during digitization? I've been getting the "we need to make a viral video" request from marketing for years, but even that noise has died down by now. We've had to explain a million times that "viral" just means that people like it and pass it around--it's not something you can force onto a video with marketing mojo. It's much the same as the term "hit show". You can make a good show. You can even make a great show, but you can't make a hit. Only the fans can do that.
It's sad to hear a person who actually works in the digital field showing such lack of understanding of such a familiar concept. I expected the next question to be, "Is there anything funny on tbs.com?"
2. With as much traffic as the Family Guy videos on our site get, I'm amazed nobody's written in about this, yet. You tell me: Is this a good thumbnail to use for a video on an "all audiences" site?
We had to let our video guy go last week due to financial and structural reasons, and I was absolutely sure he must've done this to get back at us. I was starting to worry that there may be a whole bunch of pornographic thumbnails buried in our video player. But then I checked the "submitted by" tag on the image. It came from a former coworker who's now a designer for an agency that does websites for major studio movies, and who happens to occasionally read this blog.
Hey, Eugene, thanks a lot! If I find images of Peter naked on our site, I'm coming to LA and tracking you down, man! ;)
University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen) from DASKAjA on Vimeo.
OneTwoThree teamed up with with Mike Tapson, Blake Beckstrom and Charlie Smith. Part of the 48 hour film project in Chicago. Winner of "Best Actress" and "Best Acting Ensemble"
All the teams were given:
A Genre (Thriller/Suspense)
Character: Walter or Wilma Western, Repair Person
Prop: an urn or container with a deceased's ashes
Line of Dialogue: "What's the password?"
Rather than taking the time to post about our Jamaica trip, I spent most of last night catching up on my own backed up blogroll. For most of the sites I track, I marked the posts as read and called it a day. But there were a few sites that I scanned a bit more thoroughly. One of those was Tastespotting. I can never resist some good food pics, and I always seem to find great recipes through that site.
This time, however, I found something other than recipes. I found this post asking people to list the foods they'd never let into their kitchens. The post was titled "Calling All Food Snobs," and I think it's meant to give foodies a place to rant about processed foods and box meals. But I come from a different place than those gourmands, and thus, have a very different list. (In fact, we have almost ALL of the items on the original post's list in our kitchen right now.)
Here are the ten things you'd never find in my kitchen (if my wife didn't bring them in, that is):
- Soy Milk or other Soy products
- Walnuts
- Okra
- Limburger Cheese
- Fake salt
- Cow Tongue or other Southern bizarro meats
- Grits
- Anchovies
- Cherry tomatoes
- Clean countertops and an empty sink
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