I was watching the WNBA game on ABC earlier today, and it seems like even after all this time, there’s still a big marketing problem here. Of the commercials I watched, most of them seemed to be the traditional “women’s market” items or traditional sports items (which are always tailored to male tastes); very few of the commercials seemed to be trying to bridge the gap, to tap the new market the WNBA is drawing. The WNBA’s been around long enough at this point that…
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Quick question: some of the Backwash columnists hold weekly chats on the Backwash Website. Would any of you be interested in me holding my own weekly chat on the site? I have to admit I’m a bit iffy about doing it, just because I know that holding a public chat like that could attract the ne’er-do-wells from my Internet past, but if enough regular .org readers are interested, I’d think about giving it a shot.
The Deck of Hillary Okay, fuck it, someone hook me up with some VCs stat because it’s about damn time that we take it back to the right wth this “deck of cards” bullshit.
So here I am watching game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. Maybe it’s because it’s the last hockey game for a few months. Maybe I’m just bored. Or maybe it’s my masochistic streak coming through again. I have to give the NHL credit: only they could come up with finals matchups, two out of the past three years, where I actually find myself rooting for a team from New Jersey. I mean, the Ducks have certainly proven at this point that the Wings didn’t…
You may remember that last summer Toledo had a pretty bad drought, that pretty well prevented me from taking photos anywhere. We’ve been a bit dry recently, but of course we’re coming off that killer winter with near record-setting snowfall so I don’t know what to think. The thing is, earlier today I was out grocery shopping with my sister, and the cottonwood pollen was so bad (because there hasn’t been rain to take it out recently) that it looked like it was snowing, even…