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No, seriously, less is more
As I was giving Facebook one final peruse last night, I stumbled across a fantastic article in Social Media Today. It’s always great when the key takeaway from an article is right there in the title. “The Last Thing Your Target Customer and Audience Wants From You is More Content” didn’t disappoint. You should click…
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That time I met Billy Dee Williams
I’ve been fortunate enough to meet a handful of celebrities in my life. Way back in 1986, I won backstage passes to meet Billy Idol when he played the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, which was a pretty cool experience for a music-obsessed 12-year old. About 10 years later, when I was in college, I got…
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An accidental poem
Full cup, proud and tall.Water, waiting to be drunk,stands atop my desk. Clean? A grand idea!Dust has accumulatedeverywhere I look. Moving this and that,to reach the nooks and crannies,cup is forgotten. Although not for longas, in wiping down the desk,arm and cup do meet. The cup pivots, shakes.It wasn’t expecting this;unsure what to do. Momentarily,anything…
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“All this whiskey aroma just flowing like a mighty stream”
I live in a small (well, maybe moderately-sized) Southern town. And like a lot of small and moderately-sized Southern towns, there is a healthy dose of the populace that is, for whatever reason, anti-alcohol. That opposition is usually couched in either religious terms or in “won’t somebody please think of the children” terms but it’s…
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Walk the what?
I have a general belief that music stopped being good after about 1994. There are, of course, exceptions but most everything that has come out since then has been terrible. The mid and late 90s gave us the bubblegum pop revolution – think boy “bands” and pop stars who danced a lot but who didn’t…
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It’s Facebook’s fault I didn’t go to your event
I know it can be a bit of a national pastime to rag on Facebook but there’s a lot to like about the ubiquitous social media platform. It’s made keeping up with friends and family ridiculously easy. It also helps people stay plugged into what’s going on in the world. That said, their algorithm that…
