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“A primal termite knocked on wood.
He tasted it and found it good.
And that is why your cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.”

Sage words from my friend, mentor and guru, Ogden Nash, who was born on the same day as me. Thanks for the heads up, Ogden…for giving me an early clue (that was in B.C., Before Clayton Makepeace)who we’re actually trying to seduce. Which reminds me of my ramen noodle days at Fox. We stuck a poster of Roseanne in the newsroom and grossed everybody out but we smoked the competition. OK, OK, it WAS easier then before the albatross of news formalism sucked everybody down the vortex of cable-deficit-disordered promoglut. But hey, aren’t we all Bozos on that retail bus?

Thank God, News Free TV is a pure entertainment play and we no longer have to endure watch or die dental hygiene breakthrough series promos and only an occasional beer guzzling frog or taco tasting terrier.

But what, you’re asking, does all this have to do with Demos much less Branding or clamoring for Clayton’s Critique when we all live in the weird daze of Five Dollar a Gal paranoia?

Behold, Our hottest opportunity to capitalize on the stay at home and burn less gas, watch more TV groundswell, is in Pre-Lunch Launch.

While our competition is still just clenching their teeth and clutching their keisters — hoping, praying for a miracle that will raise their decapitated ratings from the crypt, I chuckle with glee when our Homer Simpson beats NBC Nightly News. All we had to do was run a pop-up for free movie tickets and answer the phone. Small price for a few extra eyeballs and without making payments on the anchor’s Lexus.

If I had to buy news viewers it would be with (big drumroll)
Hypno-ductive Words (Sorry Cronkite, journalistic integrity nor eye candy alone can get ‘er done as per Larry the Cable Guy:)

WARNING:
There is a hidden hook to this harangue, but don’t hassle me for the secret cause nobody’s got the time to listen, or the balls to implement it, especially if you are a Lady and thought I was trying to sell you somethin.

P.S. WARNING - This Maybe your last opportunity to establish a beach head on the Normandy of Branding or you could drive by like Flava Flav into social media obscurity like a faceless facebook. Boyeeeee!

PPP.SSS. FINAL AND I FREAKIN MEAN IT-WARNING!
Leave a stunning creative endorsement of my post and I will send you a gorgeous mint condition Early Mars Viking Souvenir Sheet for your intergalactic visionary comments. This is for REAL. Scouts Honor, You could Be the first on your block to own a certified Mars Antique before they discover plankton in the underground ice which will drive anything Mars related into the grabosphere. Sorry, supply is limited and this offer is Void in Twitter and StumbleUpon after curfew.

All the Best
Sincerely,
Bill
aka TVisio

I had a bad preconception of FriendFeed.  A sucky title made me dismiss this site at first.  Just another social media site to syphon off my attention and time.  Wrongo!  I just discovered that FriendFeed is growing fast because of it's simplicity of use and utility of all your social sites.  Check it out.
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Listen to the first white boy to sing the real blues...Chuck Prophet...to say he is the new Dylan would be weak appraisal...listen

Plurk makes blogging really fun.  It has a cool timeline interface that allows cascading comments.  Many prefer Plurk over Twitter.  Plurk works well with Twitter. You can easily invite your Twitter friends.
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June 6th was D-Day. Did you forget all those who died to liberate France?

Take a moment and give thanks for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms today.

Do you know or remember anyone who was in the Invasion force in WW2?

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