It’s sad how this ending mirrors so many endings before it. The meteoric rise to fame. The quick fall from superstar to laughing stock to object of morbid curiosity. And then the death scene, complete with mysterious handlers, enablers, doctors and assorted hangers-on.
There was a long stretch of time, roughly corresponding to my college years (’82-’86), when Michael Jackson wasn’t just everywhere, he was Everywhere. It’s become cliche to say there will never be another moment like that again, but I really doubt there will ever be another performer who could stop the World quite like he did in those years.
I will tell you this about iLiver 2.0: It’s nanoengineered, and it kicks ass. I wake up every morning feeling like Shaft, Superfly, James Bond and Kung Fu all put together. I’m bench-pressing twice my body weight, and I am so friggin ready to kick some low-rent tabloid hack wannabe ass that’s it not even funny.
Welcome back Fake Steve. We missed you.
Kids are a wonderfully blank canvas. While some people see this as an opportunity to impart serious knowledge, I prefer teaching my daughter how to stand on a chair during music class, hold a crayon up in the air, and yell out, “Play Free Bird!”
Yay MetroDad and a belated Happy Father’s Day ya’ll.
Voce Communications announces Voce Connect:
to be truly successful with communications on the web, you have to blend and balance great strategies, with great content and great technology,
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Amen.
These days we’re more than a smile and a phone call, we’re web developers and content creators. The successful PR agency of the future will not only offer strategic advice and tactical execution but come with the ability to build and deploy online tools to execute, monitor, communicate, offer a community platform or to do whatever else clients need of them.
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