Hey, this is neat. Yesterday, Jimmy Johnson posted a comic strip that I own. I had it professionally framed and it hangs on the wall outside of my office. Click the thumbnail picture to see a larger image of it. Jimmy was kind enough to send this original to me 11 years ago, when Eric was only 3 years old. At the time it seemed it would be forever before he needed to start shaving, but that time is here! Eric, who turns 15 this month, received a Norelco electric razor for Christmas.
Excluding myself, for the month of January there were 2788 unique viewing visitors (non-viewers are search engines, etc.) representing about 37,000 hits. Compared to last month this is a huge increase in addresses accessing this blog, but about the same number of hits.
After Colbert tonight I left the TV on for a bit of South Park, a show whose virtues are mostly ignored by me, thanks to its gratuitous profanity. But what hit me this time is how the voices of the kids are, in the tradition of David Seville and the Chipmunks, obviously sped up.
I grabbed 90+ seconds of audio, then slowed it down. A reduction of 25% sounded about right.
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This is video of the mysterious objects being placed around Boston. This stunt ranks with the San Diego radio station contest that got a woman to drink water until she died, to win a Wii. But as stupid as The Cartoon Network was, Boston authorities must accept some blame for playing the part of Chicken Little.
What the heck is this? Three times the AARP has sent me something, acting as if I’m already a member, simply because I’m over (just over) 50. And this will be the third time I ignore them. How much money do they spend trying to move up the aging process? I’m sorry, but this is about them and what they want and not about me. Call me later, AARP, after my ankle is better and I’m running again, when I’m not feeling old.
It was supposed to be Gorilla Suit Day, and instead it turned into Guerrilla Lawsuit Day!
The spin machine is working. There’s lots of tough talk, and an arrest has been made in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force “guerrilla” advertising campaign.
Artist arrested for planting marketing figures
By Maria Cramer and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff
The man who sent city and State Police rushing to defuse what they believed were explosive devices around the Boston region was arrested tonight.
Attorney General Martha Coakley scheduled a 9 p.m. press conference to announce the arrrest of Peter Berdvosky, an Arlington artist.
What stopped the city was the way the situation was handled. Here’s audio from WBZ radio. You’ll hear some of a news report, the beginning of Paul Sullivan’s talk show, and part of the opening statement at that 9 p.m. news conference by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. Lots of talk about getting tough, along with the usual compliments about how well all of the various agencies cooperated, and what a great job everybody is doing, blah, blah, blah…
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JAN07/WBZBostonTerror.mp3]The Boston Globe has posted this editorial, and I’m glad it includes the following comment:
Homeland Security experts will need to review the response of local law enforcement. Public safety personnel may have overreacted; local bloggers apparently identified the guerrilla advertising campaign early on.
The fact that the promotional campaign was orchestrated by an advertising agency on behalf of The Cartoon Network isn’t incidental or irrelevant, but these mysterious objects could have been a stunt by college kids. Does this mean that ANYthing out of the ordinary, no matter what it is, can result in an emergency response of such magnitude? If so, then we’ve lost the war on terrorism.
