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Gone To Westeros

Last day of vacation. Boo hoo!
Some interesting news lately out of Hollywood on the progress of two highly anticipated (by me anyway) possible future HBO shows. Since both of these projects were first announced, there’s been a regime change at HBO which made it look unlikely (according to some people) that either project [...]

Digital Download Blowout

My friend Miles (who has a great new blog), recently reactivated his eMusic subscription and was asking me the other day for download suggestions. Rather than reply to him, I’d thought I’d make a blog entry out of it. Here’s stuff I downloaded from eMusic in 2008 that I enjoyed. Some of [...]

Frieda Gets Served

On a dreary Monday morning (actually it’s quite pleasant, but according to Garfield*, all Mondays are dreary), it behooves us to take a moment and reflect on the genius of Charles Schultz and the Peanuts of old. Take this classic strip for example, which was reprinted last Friday and was originally published 9/22/1961 (click [...]

Brand Loyalty

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Anytime I see a Jeep on the road with a spare tire and a wheel cover, it always freaks me out. I always think that whoever is driving [...]

Made Dogs

Another interlude before I talk about iTunes 8 (they finally did something right) and more iPhone stuff. Just the other day, I gave an example of Comic Strip Synchronicity. That’s when two comic strips use the same gag, or something close to it, on the same day. It actually happens quite a [...]

SynCainicity

Time to take a short break from talking about iPhone apps while I do some more research and testing. On to another subject. Every once in a while, I have to do Josh’s job and point out something in a comic strip that he and the Curmudgeon Commenters might have missed. I especially enjoy [...]

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