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Midweek Music Break: Collins H. Driggs (on the Novachord), “Estudiantina,” and… Beer
[The Novachord, closed and open (click either photo for an enlargement); both photos per Wikipedia] When you grew up in the US during a certain window of time (and maybe in certain geographic areas, within certain socioeconomic strata), the culture you could absorb from the adult world was this weird amalgam of past and present. [...]
Don’t Answer the Door. They’re Wearing… Gloves.
[Hat tip to the Speak Coffee to Me blog's consistently brilliant selections in its Ad of the Week series]
The Nonexistent Kavalier & Clay Film
This is almost heartbreaking to watch — because the film it’s promoting (by director and cinematographer Jamie Caliri, of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) hasn’t (yet) been made. (And if you haven’t read Kavalier & Clay yet, well, now you’ve got one more reason to do so.)
Ad Du Jour: When Is a Take Not a Take?
From UK retailer John Lewis:
Paying Attention to Voice
I may never have to master anything more difficult than thinking, and thinking convincingly, like multiple characters. It’s not just a matter of the word choices and rhythms of their dialogue (although it includes that). And it’s not just a matter of the outward manifestations of their natures — gender, style of dress, and so [...]
Okay, I Still Hate the Name “SyFy”…
…and probably always will. But this is a pretty damned impressive advertisement/trailer: It sort of compresses all the memes from the SyFy cable network’s distinctive bumper spots into a big ol’ nearly coherent 2:40 whole (and avoids the corny-CGI temptations to which the network’s special-effects guys all too often succumb in the actual programs). Nice. [...]
So Your Book Just Sits There, Inert?
(hat tip to Janet Reid)
Art, in Service to Commerce
…but first art, damn it: [As with the previous post, another hat tip to Janet Reid. What can I say? When the woman's on a roll, she's on a roll.]
Pagan Days
[Image at the right depicts Swedes celebrating Midsummer's Day in a maypole dance. I found this at sweden.se, "The Official Gateway to Sweden."] By tradition, June 24th is Midsummer’s Day. (So you know what that makes the evening of June 23rd, right?) It’s a public holiday in Quebec and a handful of countries in Europe [...]
Something Is Gained in the Translation
By John on October 28, 2009 | 7 Responses
RAMH has seen a boost in its site traffic over the last week — not in the number of visits to the blog, but in the number of pages read per visitor. Just as one example, over a 25-minute period last night 60 pages were “read,” all by one visitor: pretty amazing for a blog [...]
Posted in Advertising/Packaging, Everyday Life, Language, Running After My Hat, The Internet, The Online World | Tagged dealing with comment spam, spomments | 7 Responses