Does Your Personal Brand Need a Little Work? Try These Steps to Success
I sent an idea for a book proposal to a pretty big publishing house a few months ago. I didn’t expect it to go anywhere, but the friendly editor who passed it up the chain for me came back yesterday with the news that her boss thought “it would be hard to launch a book like this and get it to move because you’re not enough of an established brand.”
As it happens, I came across a few helpful bits of internet that I thought might give me some insight into how I’m mismanaging my personal brand. This piece from Forbes, ”Build A Personal Brand, Not Just A Career” contained all manner of valuable advice, which I am now eager to install into my brand’s sorely-in-need-of-updating OS....read the rest.
Was This Cringeworthy Tweet Actually the New York Times’ First Ever?
Some devilish genius dug back into the early days of Twitter from 2007 and uncovered the New York Times first ever tweet, which, as far as I can tell, is an actual thing that exists. I suppose I could do some research and figure out if this is just some sort of weird prank, but that sounds suspiciously like fuddy duddy old school reporting, the kind of thing that went out the window the instant this was posted...read the rest
Telephoned’s Covers of the ‘Singles’ Soundtrack Are So Good OMG #9tz Live Again
You young people might not remember this, but there was a time all the way back in the #9tz, when films had relevant soundtracks with carefully curated songs that actually had something to do with the movie in question. Perhaps the height of the golden age of soundtracks from the era (s/o to The Crow and Judgement Night) was Singles, the Cameron Crowe film that defined grunge-era Seattle for middle-American audience consumption. It was kind of the Girls of the decade, to put it in terms you can relate to, and Bridget Fonda, for whom I will harbor a perpetual boner/crush until the day I die and they find my rotted skeleton in an abandoned apartment years from now, was our Lena Dunham....read the rest.
Glenn Beck Drenches Obama In Urine In New Art World Shocker
Worst Song of the Year? Soulja Boy Interns John Boy & Shawty Boy’s Awful Pro-Date Rape Anthema
I guess I don’t really understand all the ins and outs just yet, but I always kind of assumed that being the plankton-eating-parasite-fish-hitch-hiking-a-ride-inside-the-over-sized-whale-teeth-of-a-hip-hop star like Soulja Boy wouldn’t necessitate resorting to date rape when it came to romancing the ladies. Maybe that’s why I’m not a main blow-job-getting-guy? The only thing more offensive than the concept of this song, with lyrics like “she fucked the whole team, we drug that hoe,” is the production values of the video, in which the duo dance in front of a bathroom mirror and cut to footage of Soulja Boy not even really noticing he’s being filmed. Not sure I ever really got what ratchet meant up until now, but I think this is it? Can someone cooler than me chime in here? Oh, also the song; it’s fucking awful, but that was probably obvious. Cool statue and Sprite s/o though....read the rest.
