This week’s literary 0-fer? Elmore Leonard!
Anyone have a suggestion for which of his books I should try?
Something Timmy This Way Comes
Mooning over you
Anyone read Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon
What It Is: 6/29/09
What I’m reading: Plutarch’s life of Aemilius Paulus, and a little of The Hunter
What I’m listening to: A whole ton of Michael Jackson music.
What I’m watching: A whole ton of Michael Jackson videos. And the Yankees beating up the Mets.
What I’m drinking: Blue Point Blueberry Ale.
What Rufus is up to: Going on his first greyhound hike in about 8 weeks and having a great time catching up with his pals.
Where I’m going: On a weeklong vacation (to nowhere) once this issue is done.
What I’m happy about: The Top Companies issue is just about done. It’s gonna be a hard couple of days to finish it, but I can visualize the end of it.
What I’m sad about: That Dad’s gout has stuck around, making his life pretty miserable.
What I’m worried about: Getting in trouble because I failed to mail back my jury duty notice. See, I misread the form and thought I was only supposed to mail it in if I was trying to get a deferral. Oops. On the upside, my juror number is above the cut-off point, so I won’t have to go serve on Tuesday.
What I’m pondering: Whether Ron Rosenbaum knows anyone under the age of 40.
You COULD call it viral. . .
Last week, I posted about the Leroy Smith viral marketing campaign, which I thought was a hoot. At that time, I mentioned that I frequent the basketball website realgm.com.
One of my other regular destinations is Page 6, the gossip section of the New York Post. It’s one of the few ways I have to stay in touch with the popcult, since I don’t watch a lot of TV and haven’t listened to the radio in my car in a few years. I enjoy seeing the bold-faced names and reading of their canoodling, even if I’m not sure who’s whom. The blind items can be pretty entertaining, too.
But sometimes the ads catch my eye. They’re usually for Broadway musicals or condos. Sometimes, the ads for a TV show like 90210 take over the entire page.
And sometimes you get Denise Richards.
When I saw the animated tower ad this weekend for the second (!?) season of Denise Richards’ reality show on E!, “It’s Complicated”, I assumed I was looking at a parody ad for one of those “Scary Movie” flicks. Why? Because this was the first of three slogans/catchphrases:
“Flaunt my funbags.” Oh, I’m sorry. I mean, “FLAUNT MY FUNBAGS.”
I, uh, wow. I don’t have anything to add. Anyone help me out here?
Otto . . . Stadt?
I haven’t posted a BusinessWeek slideshow in a long time! Here’s a neat one about European Auto Museums! And none of them are designed by Frank Gehry! Score!
Boy, this Porsche museum looks like it’s trying to scuttle away, huh?
My New Flailing Technique Is Unstoppable
From the few occasions that I’ve DJ’d, I learned there are 3 surefire things that will get people to dance:
- Baby Got Back
- You Dropped the Bomb on Me
- Virtually anything by Prince
However, when you’re at the, um, Sasquatch Festival (?), it can be a little trickier to start a massive dance party:
But I’m sure it’s more rewarding to get that sorta crowd up and dancing.
Hat tip: Matador Nights.
Good night, sweet Grasshopper
David Carradine has died at 72, while in Thailand on a movie shoot.
No word on whether Pai Mei’s Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique was involved.
The Zen Wisdom of Dennis De Young
The paradox of the song Don’t Let It End by Styx is that you want actually nothing more than for it to end.