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what did you do today, raincoaster?

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Dorothy Parker, who really looks more Doloresy here

Oh, not much. Just

  • pulled the second all-nighter in a week
  • emailed a deadbeat client’s boss’s boss’s boss
  • had a wicked good strategy and venting meeting with Mike Yurechko
  • had a wicked good strategy and venting meeting with April Smith of AHA Media
  • locked down another two fabulous speakers for WordCamp Okanagan, due sometime in late January or February, depending on what the tourism board suggests
  • invited all and sundry and their exes to the launch of Reading is Sexy this Thursday
  • Pestered Vanity Fair magazine on Twitter till they showed me where the story I was bitching about not being online was posted…online
  • did a nice, thorough grocery shop
  • paid my housing charges
  • made a strategic plan for the rest of the week
  • did 30 45 or so affiliate links, GAH
  • fixed one of the blogs on the network that was broken
  • lined up an aweber tutorial, thanks again to Mike
  • lined up four really solid leads on community management/blogging gigs
  • dropped a reminder to that book client that we’ve gotta get cracking and I’m waiting for the stuff he’s gotta send me, including the greenbacks

Posted:

  1. multiple snarky comments on Gawker, of course
  2. a meaningless time-filling quiz
  3. a filthy Christmas post featuring Katy Perry to go with the filthy Thanksgiving one featuring Adam Lambert
  4. a heartfelt request to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  5. stickied my Twitter Tips class this Saturday
  6. a Not So Silent Night benefit for Pivot Legal Society
  7. the Reading is Sexy calendar launch info cross-posted from the Shebeen Club
  8. managed to promise to write a post about Homelessness is Over for Boris Johnson’s site
  9. The unbearable gravity of celebrity ie celebrity pratfalls
  10. the very raincoaster-worthy Who Wore It Best: The Seafood Chapeau
  11. rough draft of a new post for MY NEWEST BLOG! Yay for paid gigs!

You?

Quiz: What Kind of Christmas Tree Are You?

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Goddam fuckin’ straight I’m a bright Christmas Tree! Ain’t NO MOFO mo’ Christmasy than me!


You Are a Bright Christmas Tree


For you, the holidays are all about fun and seasonal favorites.

 

You are into all things Christmas, even if they’re a little tacky.

A Modest Proposal: that you read this story

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Thanksgiving on Sesame Street

Yes, I’m making a modest proposal that you click away from my site (take a screenshot, this may never happen again) and go over to David B. Dale’s blog and read his heartwarming Thanksgiving story, destined to be an instant classic.

Why? Because…well, here’s the first line:

She was our youngest and tender-hearted (tender, in fact, throughout) and therefore hard to eat.

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The Corruption Map

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Stephen Harper checks his dinner for tenderness

This is nothing more nor less than a map of the most/least corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International. I, personally, think they’re giving Stephen Harper too much credit (or they just don’t know which strings to pull, typically Canadian!) but it’s flattering to see Canuckistan only a blue rinse away from snowy-white purity.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted
Mae West

The Corruption Map

Competitiveness and corruption.
Image via Wikipedia

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Sesame Street Layoffs hit hard

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Sad Grover has a sad

Sesame Street, that beloved icon of childhood, where we learned everything we needed to know that later showed up in an overpriced book on business leadership, is under seige.

We thought that a neighborhood of loveable, shaggy Muppets would escape the ravages of the recession: my friends, we were wrong. So, so wrong.

In a tearful announcement earlier today, Kermit the Frog announced that, effective immediately, Sesame Street will lay off 20% of its workforce. While he refused to give specifics, he did indicate that the cuts would be made from the on-air staff, leaving no-one immune to these Draconian cost-cutting measures. Out of approximately 140 Muppets, this represents a loss of 28 beloved characters. Who will it be???

Video of the press conference from CNN:

and some updated lyrics, for the fans: originals here

Pogey Day

Sweepin’ the sun away

On my way to get my benefits

Can you tell me how to get,

How to get to the EI office, please?

Come line up

It’s fun to be a grup

Friendly social workers

Will see you now

Can you tell me how to get

How to get what’s coming to me?

It’s an Orwellian ride

Every one will be pushed aside

Unhappy people like you–

Unhappy people like…

What a terrible…

Dreary Day

Smokin’ my cares away

Off my head, here where the air is sweet

Can you tell me how to get,

How to get to …

Um, I forget.

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