One use to measure a person’s worth by the amount of people that showed up to his funeral. Now it’s the number of tweets about them within an hour of their death.
Entries from June 2009
Celebrity deaths in a Web 2.0 world
June 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: Music · TV · The Internet · Wit or lack thereof
The glory of great cartoons and children’s stories
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments
I watch cartoons still. A lot. I saw Up, Wall-E (twice) and loved Kung-Fu Panda so much I bought it on DVD. I still watch it ever now and again. As a kid, I watched nothing but cartoons (thank you early Cartoon Network). I loved every one of them. Every Hanna-Barbara, every Merry Melodies and [...]
Tags: Books · Movies · Rants · TV · Wit or lack thereof
If only it were so easy
June 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Photo by Jonathan Bachman
I don’t sleep half as much as I should. Same goes for writing. I sit, dick around on the same dozen Web sites looking for something, anything, to get me going. As if reading something about the NBA Finals or some argument for or against Obama’s policies in the Middle East is [...]
Tags: Insomnia · Rants · Wit or lack thereof
The internet can quickly kill what was probably just an OK joke.
June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Watching the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Hulu, I saw an ad for Goodwill Industries of America. It showed a pink flamingo; pink, fuzzy dice; a pair of legs wearing pink heels and pink-and-black striped socks. The tag-line at the end prompts viewers to “Free your stuff” and donate. I couldn’t find a clip [...]
Tags: TV · The Internet · Wit or lack thereof