First Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine (November 9, 1967)
For some I feel more comfortable posting to this blog than the main blog. i feel a bit more free here... it's almost like i can take the liberty to freewrite and write blah blah blah and post up whatever and people wont mind...
anyway, this past week has been quite busy here. i've been somewhat caught up in this digg.com thing, trying to figure out how it all works, how articles make it to the front page, becoming extremely addicted to it. "digging" articles left and right. at some later point I want to talk about my experience with this... it was fun in the beginning, but things are starting to get annoying...
also, blog surfing and dropping entrecards, i've noticed, seems to be taking up a lot of my time. i dont know why, but i just have to drop my 300 for the main blog and 300 for this blog... and i'm not quite sure how other people do it, how they can visit 600 to 900 blogs a day and be able to continue and have the time to update their own blogs. they're quite amazing those bloggers!
i'm going to have to make some adjustments, since the projects that i'm working on are video related, and video, i've come to a realization is extremely time consuming!
I had a few things I wanted to post on the main blog but decided to scratch them... I guess they weren't "ready" enough. and i'd rather not post anything all that I dont feel is ready...
Here are few things that I wanted to post about:
- 1) Rolling Stone Cover to Cover DVD purchase
- 2) Olympics and Synchronized Springboard Diving.
- 3) Colbert's Green Screen Challenge
- 4) Review of the Celtx Software
This past wednesday I finally received my copy of The Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years. It's listed for about $79.00 on Amazon.com, but I got it for much cheaper than that, more than half the price off. Aint I cool now?
Honestly, I've never read a single issue of the Rolling Stone magazine before. All I know is that it once used to be a hip magazine for all things music...
Really, the only reason for getting it was so I could be able to browse the issue with Annie Lebowitz's famous photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. You know the one with John Lennon in the nude, in the fetal position lying next to Yoko Ono? And the only reason I know about this photo was from a photography class I took awhile back and we studied Annie Lebowitz.
The January 22st, 1981 Issue of the Rolling Stone. $1.50.
The image is definitely in high resolution, and I'm quite happy about this purchase. That image alone for me was worth the money I paid. Here's the cropped screenshot of that issue:
And I've been pretty much preoccupied with this Rolling Stone magazine, browsing through 40 years of music.
The other thing that happened this past week was the Olympics. After a wonderful and spectacular Opening Ceremony, some crazed man had to kill an American tourist... My heart goes out to the American killed in Beijing. Todd Bachman. I really don't know what to say about this. It is extremely sad and I really cant find the words to express and its really affecting my mood... I just hope there isnt any more tragedies like this... and everything goes smoothly for the Olympics here on out.
My original post regarding the Olympics had to do with Synchronized Diving. It was interesting to watch this event last night. But I wondered why there werent any twins competing in general, wondered if there was some rule against it... because twins would definitely have a clear advantage in these synchronized events. And so I started to brainstorm about it, but eventually just scratched the whole idea. Here's what was started:
Now you can pretty much see why I scratched it. Alright, it's time for me to sleep. Good night everyone.
9 comments:
Heh. Most days I just use the Entrecard toolbar to return the drops in my inbox. Then every so often I'll drop on as many of the other humor blogs as I can until I hit 300. That's really about all I have time to do.
Speaking of vintage magazines on DVD-ROM, I just ordered the National Lampoon set. Now THERE'S some major nostalgia, at least for this old Mr. Mike fan. :)
@WTF Guy i installed the Entrecard toolbar, but last night after your comment, finally tried it to open and drop my inbox... so far so good!
I've never heard of the National Lampoon, but by the description of it, it sounds quite interesting! From Amazon.com:
Product Features
* A total of 246 original magazines from 1970 through 1998.
* NATIONAL LAMPOON began as a publishing venture in 1970, led by comic geniuses Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and magazine publisher Matty Simmons.
* The magazine quickly established itself as the most shocking, subversive, and unpredictable mass-circulation magazine ever, offering comic perspectives never before captured in print.
* From revolutionizing the magazine industry to launching the careers of some of comedy's most honored performers and writers, NATIONAL LAMPOON has forever changed the face of humor and American culture.
* From movies to books to radio to TV to the web, the NATIONAL LAMPOON has been breaking the barriers of humor and good taste since its inception.
Oh yeah, there was something to offend ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY in that magazine. They did their best stuff in the early '70s, then it started to go downhill. Some of the writers (and performers from their radio and stage shows) later worked on the original Saturday Night Live ('75-'80).
Lots more info at www.marksverylarge.com -- Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site. :)
Thanks for this info! I was browsing on Amazon.com and saw that this can be bundled with 50 years of Mad Magazine for a special price of $55.98. I've never read a single issue of Mad, but have seen the TV show. :) I'm definitely interested, will definitely have to save up for this!
I do believe humour, satire and comedy and the like of the time, can be an interesting way to study along with past, the history, the cultural and intellectual climate... perhaps at times offering, revealing a more "honest" version of the story...
Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site wow! started in 1998!
Thank you for the links!
also, blog surfing and dropping entrecards, i've noticed, seems to be taking up a lot of my time. i dont know why, but i just have to drop my 300 for the main blog and 300 for this blog... and i'm not quite sure how other people do it, how they can visit 600 to 900 blogs a day and be able to continue and have the time to update their own blogs. they're quite amazing those bloggers!
I am convinced now that quite a few people don't actually read the blogs they just drop the card and move on to the next one. No one could consistently drop 300 cards per day and actually read all of the blogs and comment.
@Renee it's just too difficult. I'm so exhausted. Like the past few days, I've been coming home late from work, and each night there are all these drops in my inbox. And I find myself racing against the clock, the midnight deadline to reciprocate. There's no way I can reciprocate all them... On "normal" days I spend all night, a lot of times even at work trying to reciprocate drops.
Quite a few bloggers i've been reading have brought this up, they love the traffic, but it seems nobody seems to read. just drop and go... right now, I dont mind these droppers. At least the credits are coming in, so I can use them to spend on advertising...
Here's an interesting entry by Anitz regarding drops and commenting:
Writing 200 Comments a day is like living in hell
The Hawg blog has an interesting entry on entrecard:
Entrecard Sucks
There was another blogger, who can do 300 drops in 8 or so minutes:
Veritable Life
I'm finding now after a month or so of entrecard, I'm starting to "like" (ironically) blogs who
1) dont post regularly
2) do those pay-per-post, ex. Zunni Opticals
3) post wordless entries
exhausted, time to go to sleep. Thanks for visiting!
Yep, you're both absolutely right about people dropping Entrecards without actually reading the blogs. (And there was no way I was gonna go anywhere near SezWho -- I saw the lunacy in that right away.) That's part of the reason I switched to shorter posts with less actual writing; folks can get their laugh and move on without losing much time, even if they're in a dropping frenzy. And, hey, it allows me more free time, too. :)
Frankly, I'm hoping to eventually be able to say bye-bye to Entrecard; I've joined Humor-Blogs.com and HumorBloggers.com as well as a couple of webrings, and they're starting to get me more real hits. Plus, I'm continuing to look for other ways to build an audience. It ain't easy and it does take time, but it can be done if you play your cards right (no pun intended).
I'm guilty of not reading blogs while dropping cards but I do scan the the title and a bit of content. If I find the article interesting, I bookmark it using a firefox extension called read it later. After dropping all 300 which normally takes me less than an hour. I go back to the blog and read the article and maybe comment on it.
@WTF just finished my drops made it before midnight. eventually i'll probably do the same as you... and for the entrebar, use the it to casually browse my favorites and use the random feature to stumbleupon new ones...
@Orangeinks i'm finding lately i'm also using your strategy of dropping first, then going back later... but it still took me 3 half hours today, got the last one in minute or so before midnight. now that i'm done, the first thing i want to do is go to sleep! :)
wednesday has come and gone... have a good night!
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