October 2008
7 posts
How to become famous
Redoing the book’s web site this week. If you know how to design pretty things and you want to be paid minimally or decently to do so, please let me know by email. I can pay via check or, maybe, PayPal.
It's not all right, but it's okay.
Here are two songs you will like. And yes, feel free to Stumble this page so others can hear them, too. Buy the book at Borders or B&N (or online from Amazon) if you haven’t already. I decided earlier tonight I am not going to write another one. Been there, done that. I think it’s the best guide to social media and dynamic fame available right now. There’s no need to try to...
Alec Baldwin imitating Sarah Palin...
So worth watching.
September 2008
12 posts
My new article: Offend your audience. Surprise... →
Obama Girl
The lovely Obama Girl (human birth name: Amber Ettinger) posted an awesome little recommendation on her MySpace the other day:
Link to MySpace post
So I’m assuming every male between the ages of 15-25 will be running out to the store to buy Dirty Little Secrets of Buzz—and maybe a few of her friends who are sniping for her fame, too.
“If you’re not driving, there is exactly one condition under which...”
– GQ, October 2008, Rule #28 — on Bluetooth headsets
Upcoming radio appearances
Tomorrow morning — KGAB Radio (Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado markets)
Monday, October 6 — KDGE-FM — 10:30AM Central Time (Dallas, TX market)
More news soon…
New feature: Keeping the publicist honest
From time to time, I’ll be posting e-mails I get from my publicist. This may not be 100% cool with her — she might tell me to find someone else to hawk me to shows — but I don’t think she’ll care. In today’s e-mail, she explains how she is using the techniques in Dirty Little Secrets of Buzz to get me booked on shows. Her message copy and pasted below.
Secret...
Before you e-mail me:
So I’ve been getting some wacko e-mails (hey, I’m guilty of sending weird e-mails sometimes, so I always try to read whatever people write to me).
Basically, a few of you see this blog becoming increasingly “political” — like the previous graphic. Well, so what? It’s pretty close to the election, of course I’m going to be using some political content.
In...
Seth Green is funny again
I’ll see this when it comes out: good to see something that isn’t a Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow flick for once. Clip below not safe for work.
David Blaine's newest PR stunt →
Blaine: trying his best to jump out of the gene pool, one stunt at a time.
Burn After Reading
Not funny. Just saying.
August 2008
5 posts
This is hilarious... "Look Around You"
The science program taken to the extreme…
"John McCain nails it at Saddleback."
Okay, this is hilarious. In my opinion!
Paris Hilton's perfect publicity grab
Just in case you haven’t seen this already…
July 2008
9 posts
"Be back in 5 minutes"
This blog has been pretty still lately.
I’ve been busy working on something. There’s only so much energy in the day, and sadly thankfully I’m more committed to self-promotion and the wholesale destruction of trees (a.k.a. having a successful book) than to finding you little YouTube clips.
But you should totally check out The Dark Knight because I’m seeing in two hours and...
“Attempting to rush the schedule based on your own timetable is akin to getting...”
– Wayne Dyer, from The Power of Intention
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger as the Joker, trailers of The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight preview screenings, Batman franchise.
There, I’ve done it. A post designed entirely as a traffic grab. Sadly, this will likely get more traffic than every other item on my blog.
But this is actually interesting: Scientific American’s excellent take on Batman in a four-page article no doubt also...
Justin Timberlake, Madonna, and "cumulative...
If you care about social networks, pop culture, and why some people become very popular (while others don’t) — you should read this article in the Times.
Fascinating.
New York Times
Hey, sorry I’ve been away for so long. Been mad busy — hopefully things will calm down eventually. My book was mentioned in a New York Times piece the other day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/business/media/30toxic.html
It also ran overseas in International Herald Tribune, which NYT apparently owns:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/30/business/30toxic.php
Anyway, this led to...
June 2008
4 posts
Republican Senator's campaign ad is SO nuts
Can anyone guess which state this man represents? (Hint: It begins with a T and ends with an exas.)
[via Gawker]
Obama Fanboy Time!
All right, let down your guard and let this take you in.
Amazing 360 degree view of an Obama rally in Detroit. Kudos to Detroit Free Press for doing the first interesting thing on a paper’s web site since, oh, I don’t know.
(I could probably figure out a way to embed that if I really wanted to… but it’s late, and je suis fatigue. Also: someone who had been following me on...
McCain's message of hope:
Such conviction!!!
Oh, and yes, feel free to watch this 38,000 times in a row. I did.
[via Gawker]
LOLeconomy: "Americans $1.7 trillion poorer"
That number from a CNNMoney article earlier today. I know this may sound kind of insensitive, but… it seems like things are pretty good, considering how shitty everything is at the moment.
I was at the mall the other day and the place was totally packed—some soccer mom swooped in on the parking spot I had been patiently eyeing for five minutes. Normally I would have laid on the horn,...
May 2008
17 posts
Photo of the Day!
I’m sort of partial to the lady above, but some readers may prefer the cop car pic below (someone was in too much of a hurry to get away…) Speaking of readers! Hot damn! As of typing these words, I’ve received 55,324 visits to the blog and site today. I’m glad you like the site’s weird sense of humor. If you want tons more hilarious stuff, I definitely recommend...
Make fun of Bill O'Reilly, get fired!
So Barry Nolan is the “TV journalist” recently fired by CN8 (a network I’ve totes been on before) for protesting an award ceremony honoring Papa Bear. Heroic move, but ultimately bad news for the guy’s career. His reasoning is pretty sound: “O’Reilly was an appalling choice, not because of his political views, but because he simply gets the facts wrong, abuses his...
Clean Slate!
“Shake, shake, shake it! Your lips tremble but your eyes are in a straight stare…” -Metro Station, Shake It It’s amazing how quickly you can find yourself when you come home. It’s like, oh yeah, this is who I am, I remember now. Some points: As you can see, I’ve edited/deleted some previous posts… decided it’s not cool to write something you would...
Chill weekend.
Of course I leave New York right as I meet a girl I like (and vice versa, I think). I guess we’ll just have to pine for each other over the next week or two, penning wax-sealed love letters in the wee hours of the morning. Still, I’m glad to be home: got to bond with my mom earlier this evening out on the deck, drinking good pinot noir and watching the sun creep over the tall trees in...
Accuracy in media: Emily Gould edition.
Edit: This post has been edited for karmic reasons. See “Clean Slate” posting above. To summarize: a blogger named Emily Gould wrote an article for this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. Some people really liked it; some did not. Either way, it’s not worth freaking out about; next weekend it will be used to line the floors of parakeet bird cages. [via Gawker]
Why Reddit users never get laid.
Reddit, the social bookmarking utility that will always be in Digg’s shadow traffic wise, is a bizarre place. Although the frontpage invariably has a few interesting stories up at any given time, it is also rife with heated operating system arguments, posters who still think Texas crazy man Ron Paul stands a shot at anything, and postings so unabashedly nerdy that they must be shielded...
"Mr. Right Iz Here Waitin On U"
[This post has been significantly edited for karmic reasons. Read my latest posting for an explanation.]
Happiness.
Took this photo at the Union Square B&N the other day. A happiness book by itself? Perfectly normal. But there’s something about all of these put together that’s a little, I dunno, demented? UPDATE: Galleycat has a posting about this photo. Nice!
Lost in translation.
Because “Stairs ahead” would have been too easy… [via Engrish]
Funny recuts.
So there are people online, smart nerds with good video editing software and nothing but time, who do hilarious “recuts” of movie trailers — the idea is to totally alter the film’s genre. Here are two of the best. Garden State recut as something terrifying, and The Shining recut as a romantic comedy. The Shining recut:
Hilarious.
“There’s one that looks like the word delicious, but with a bunch of dots in it.” “I have a MySpace… I just have the one friend, yeah the guy with the t-shirt.” “Twenty years ago, when I wanted to be a writer… a big part of the dream was being able to put little videos on the internet.” [via Gawker]