Pardon the plug here folks, but I need to pay some bills…
Have you squared away your back-to-school shopping? Well, Halloween isn’t that far off either, so it’s time to go get yourself, your significant other (or cat), and kids (or more cats) some costumes! Here are a few of the latest sexy costumes for the ladies…
INSANELY busy day today… kids off to school, BNI luncheon, meeting with a new client, guitar lesson, a crazy amount of coding… so I’ll just leave you with some links… and two more things…
I want EVERYONE to help my amazing friend Teresa Woods raise money by donating to her Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Teresa, herself is a breast cancer survivor – and a very young one at that (36). Teresa and I met at Georgia Tech and reconnected about a year and a half ago via facebook, when I found out she was going through treatment. T is healthy and doing awesome these days. In fact, Teresa offered this to entice you folks into donating… check out what she saved (NSFW, but tasteful). And yes, ladies… there is some eye candy for you in that shot too, her boyfriend is in the shot as well. So read Teresa’s story, and help her raise money towards breast cancer. Do it for the boobies!!! And retweet this link please and spread the word!
One in a while, a blog post just gets you right in the heart. One from my friend Gwendolyn did exactly that yesterday. Read this and you’ll understand why I stopped working yesterday to play with my daughter on the playground after school. We never know how much time we have with each other. Be good.
Tracy, Doug, Abbe, and I had a great time last night. First we hit The Standard Tap for some burgers, fries, and great beers (I had a Yards Brawler – nice heavy English Ale). And then we headed over to my new favorite bar in Philly to see bands, Johnny Brenda’s.
Johnny Brenda’s has some of the greatest coasters ever btw…
The first opener was Sharon Van Etten – gorgeous, willowy voice, but lyrically not all that great. Her first two songs were awesome. When a crowd unfamiliar with your songs notices that every song uses some variation of the word “hold”, that means you need to open yourself up a bit more.
Next up was The Wooden Birds from Austin, TX, a band that reminded me a lot of Spoon if Spoon sounded more like they were from Austin, TX. The band had some really good songs, but I’m pretty sure someone told them that there’s a contest for using “Awww’s” in their songs. And if they win the contest they win all the Rudy’s BBQ they can eat.
Going into the night, I was a little concerned that this show would be a sleeper. The Great Lake Swimmers write such pretty, quiet songs – I love them, but I was worried that Abbe might be sleeping. But as we watched them load their stand-up bass, violin, banjo, and kettle drum onto the stage, we knew it was going to be fun to watch. The truth is, they do play pretty, quiet songs but seeing any artist do their craft live so well is just damn impressive. Moving Pictures Silent Films, Your Rocky Spine, Pulling On A Line and I Am Part of a Large Family really stood out for me as the strongest songs of the night. Moving Pictures Silent Films is the perfect song to introduce someone to this band, the proverbial, “you need to hear this song” song.
I felt horrible towards the end of the night. Tony Dekker was mumbling through an introduction to a song, and it was a long story about a tune written for an architecture association concerning the architecture of Toronto during the 60s and 70s. I then told Doug, “this is bullshit, I had just happened to have written a song about architecture of Toronto during the 60s and 70s. Shit!” Doug burst out laughing and apparently Tony heard it too, he shot a dirty look up into the balcony in our direction. Sorry Tony! We loved the show!
Here’s a clip of the band performing Pulling On A Line…
OK, you know those IQ test ads that pop-up all around Facebook? Well, whilst checking out my hockey team in Hockey Tycoon (which may very well over take Mafia Wars as my favorite Facebook game, this ad came up…
What’s odd here is that, the first picture is Abbe, the second is her sister Rachel, her sister Emily’s pregnant belly, and then her brother’s girlfriend Mal. The captions below each picture kill me.
Some good news, Sage and I are moving forward with the FlashGameFever.com design, look for the flash game arcade to launch after the weekend most likely. I’ll be using Mochiads for the first time, pretty psyched to work with their engine. Lowgrove Farm will be live very soon as well, the owner is very pleased with the design that Liv and I came up with. I will be working on a Macon, GA pediatrician’s website in the next week or two thanks to a referral/sale by Liv as well. What does all this mean? Well, the checks haven’t started coming in yet, but I will most likely be able to cut back to partial unemployment very soon (and maybe even come completely off too). I’m right around the corner from really doing this. The furiousCMS that I started developing with Climate Skateboards (and subsequent modifications with the Wheelies redesign) is really making this happen. I’ll write more about this tomorrow or the next day, I need to head out the door to meet with Bill from Dixon Hill to get crackin’ on theFamilyRegistry.com.
Witness for the Prosectuion – I really wasn’t that impressed with this Agatha Christie film, it was OK, the characters were good, and I really liked Marlene Dietrich, but Tyrone Power’s overacting would have made William Shatner blush.
