hahahahahahahaaa [Edit] Somebody wouldn't give her his telephone number?????
- The Fat Oracle
I think an important element to this that isn't immediately obvious (if you don't click through) is that this is addressed to Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, who has started to use a video as an email auto-responder: http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-...
- Mark Trapp
Yes, Vaynerchuk's video response to email is significant, and Andrew's dislike of same. I think the video is great, it may be Rocketboom 2.0.
- Dave Winer
I've fallen victim to Gary's auto email reply, with his video link, before. lol.
- Louie
liz, message from gary: "please mail it to 586 Morris Avenue Springfield, New Jersey 07081 marked ATTN GARYV URGENT URGENT URGENT thanks will get back to you in two to three weeks"
- Deva Hazarika
It's cool, provided you don't mind the skin cancer thing....
- Shawna Benson
For some reason this reminds me of the screening of Phat Girls in Seattle a few years ago. The crowd was 98% African-American, and the radio station promoting it offered a raffle prize from a tanning salon. Perhaps it is the inappropriateness of the product in today's cancer ridden society.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
It can probably be done right, without causing cancer by still using lotion. It would be interesting to see one cut out like an 8-bit video game.
- Andrew Baron
Do they make one that says "Quit looking at my ass"?
- Jim #TeamMonique
It looks like it's a concept, not an actual product, I guess. The left and right photos obviously don't match. I'm black and I get my own "sun tattoos" from sandals across my pale feet every summer. They're actually still visible right now. But yeah, you're right, very few of us need or want any artificial tans.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"From hanging out with rock bands to hitting on twentysomething women at bars, Bill seems to be going through his own unique midlife crisis. He's not a boozy, sweaty party hound who gets caught on camera cheesing it up with pretty young girls (see: Mel Gibson, Bono); rather, he's more like a ghost in the night, who shows up out of nowhere, engages in utterly random conversations and then exits gracefully—leaving witnesses to wonder what the hell just happened. Deadpan, detached and seeming a bit lonely, Bill Murray is NYC's most unlikely new party guy."
- Steve Isaacs
from Bookmarklet
I'd love to keep an eye on him.. anyone willing to supply me with accommodation and an income for the duration and I'll go round parties with him. The guy is a legend! :)
- alphaxion
do it, Bill. you deserve it. thanks for making us laugh for all these years.
- Nathan Chase
he was sued for divorce early this year. not sure where that stands. was pretty messy, IIRC.
- MikeAmundsen
Yeah Shevonne. Traumatized because some boobie is rubbing against his elbow. :P
- AJ Batac
I love Bill Murray! Read the last paragraph of the article.
- Steve Isaacs
"I'm right in the MIDDLE of something, Ray! Umm, I need a little more time with this subject. Could you come back in an hour, hour and a half?"
- Anthony Citrano
This is actually not a new thing for Bill. And, it is not just house parties. For over a decade, Bill has loved popping up in strange places and interacting directly with people. He hates the protective layer in which so many celebs are shrouded.
- Christopher Sacca
Notice how his skin looks kind of sallow compared to the girls? needs a facial. All men should use a scrub in the shower over age 35.
- Patricia
Fuckin' awesome. Makes me love him even more.
- Vincent X
They all look the same pink on my iPhone :)
- MiniMage
WOW... he looks super sad, empty and lonely... not good
- Susan Beebe
Bill. Call me. You rock and I want to party with you! We can go kill some golphers
- Morgan
well bill is recently divorced (or in the midst of divorce procedings) kinda makes sense.....he's sad and lonely....and trying to recapture his youth.....and maybe get a lil sum-sum in the process........play on playa...........i hope im still trying when/if im his age.......kudo's to him for gettin back out there !!!
- UncleCreepy13
Bill Murray is, IMO, perhaps the most underrated actor working today. He deserved to win that Oscar for Lost In Translation. The face he's making in the picture looks to me like the same face he's been making for thirty years... just a little older.
- Jim #TeamMonique
sounds like he's sort of living the role he played in "Lost in Translation"...and that wasn't exactly a "feel good" movie, ya know?
- .LAG liked that
Lost in Translation is one of the best movies of the last 20 years inmyopion. Great soundtrack. Great acting. Funny and touching and realistic and awesome. Great great fun watching it and watching it again
- Morgan
yeah bill. you are getting poon while the rest of us have to work for it. you rock. try to cheer the hell up would you? and here's another idea....release an album of you singing karaoke. your song in the movie was excellent.
- Morgan
+1 @morgan on "lost in translation"...based on this article, it may have been a case of bill murray's art imitating his life.
- .LAG liked that
An interesting article on an interesting icon. I found his performance in Lost in Translation brilliant. That film is certainly in my top 5 favorite films of all time.
- Thomas Hawk
This is brilliant. Apparently Bill Murray has discovered that his fame allows him to walk in pretty much anywhere he wants and be accepted, even welcomed. What a strange world NYC would be if you didn't feel any social barriers and could just participate anywhere you found something interesting (or mundane). Then again, maybe fame isn't required, just a certain mindset.
- Kevin Fox
Bill Murray has one thing that many people -- famous or not -- lack, which would allow him to drift into almost any social situation and be accepted and welcomed: he's funny. ftw!
- .LAG liked that
I started a little email chain with a few NYC friends on Facebook and out of the 5 people I asked, 1 had heard that Bill Murray had rocked up to a Halloween party around the corner from her in Brooklyn (where his son lives, apparently), and another had a friend who was working on an archaeological dig in Cyprus where, randomly, Bill Murray rocked up and started pitching in with manual labour - carrying equipment back and forth - on and off for a couple of weeks. Giving out loads of advice to everyone...
- Luke Robinson
It's a rough life ... but somebody's gotta do it ....
- Charlie Anzman
@Vijayendra Mohanty: Have a friend who loves Edy's Girl Scout cookie ice cream (particularly thin mint). He happily assures everyone nearby that the product is made from REAL Girl Scouts. I wonder if he likes chianti.
- MiniMage
"Over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated regions and on the coasts. This expulsion has had many causes. But the big one is this: Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize their coalition with a form of social class warfare. ... What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole. The liberals had coastal condescension, so the conservatives developed their own anti-elitism, with mirror-image categories and mirror-image resentments, but with the same corrosive effect."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
چه کلک!!!!!!!!! جای اولد فشن خالیه یه تریپ شاندرمن بیاد!!!!!!!!!!!
- Business Blogger 【ツ】™
Does not deter people throwing out your sandwich...
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
And encourages people to puke on your sandwich.
- Chester
That sandwich would most definitely be thrown away.
- Kenya
To all of the nay sayers, I think most people *WOULD NOT TOUCH IT* so they couldn't throw it away or anything else. They would just leave it there for someone else to deal with.
- Andrew Baron
@Andrew it's a possibility, but I toss stuff out in the office fridge because I don't want mold to somehow get involved with my food...
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
@ben, you should be careful, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsuspecting growth, a total biohazard. Please leave that stuff alone and let someone else deal with it, you could be seriously injured.
- Andrew Baron
"With Ms. Palin, it’s not about agreeing or disagreeing. She doesn’t appear to understand some of the most important issues."
- Andrew Baron
from Bookmarklet
There's a phone that looked like the iPhone but it's by Sprint. I don't remember what the guy told me it was called
- Outsanity
David, winmo is pretty bad about that but palm is way worse
- mjc
stinks that's it so unreliable. Mine is too. But I love the big screen.
- Andrew Warner
My WinMo phone may have memory management issues and requires a reboot every now and again but I have never had a need to hard reset it... in fact none of the ones I have had, have needed that.
- Ian D. Nock
from twhirl
I've been having huge issues too. Doing a hard restore on my original iPhone and it looks like it won't let me continue without activation (I've been using it just as an internet tablet since getting my new one).
- Matt Devost
Outsanity: The Samsung Instinct. Everyone: I've also used WinMo for years and have never required a hard reset. And yet everyone loves to poo poo on WM. Go figure.
- Chieze Okoye
The funny thing is that after eighteen months, my Hermes finally has a (enthusiast cooked) ROM which actually works. It very reliable with great battery life now. Doesn't stop me wanting an iFail tho.
- mattpovey
I so do not want an iPhone. Are there as many problems with the iPod touch? I do want one of those.
- Mattb4rd
I've had nothing but good luck w/ my iPhone. No probs.
- Andrew Baron
outsanity, it's the instinct. i have it and don't think it looks like the iphone. i love my phone, even though it's hard to do without a ton of apps like i had on my PPC6700.and since it's java based, there's a lot of things that won't work on it. but it's ridiculously fast (i tested both the instinct and the iphone on the same day) and if you're not hung up on silly ibling, you'd be happy with it. but wait until they fixed the sound problem with uploaded videos to youtube. that's annoying.
- Anika
lol. this calls for some cake or ice cream or something with lots of calories!
- Cee Bee
Here, getting into cab always results in the same conversation. Cabbie: Where to? Passenger: [So-and-so location] Cabbie: Ah... uh... so, how would you get there?
- Akiva
and if the answer to caroline's question is yes then.....pics?
- Cee Bee
well, i'm a little ashamed *blush*, but ... oh, you mean mona?
- Mladen Srdić
If that's how one gets a free ride, then I'm all for getting kicked outta cab. Only, I'll piss him off just before reaching my destination.
- Kevin Singarayar
You should have so taken him up on the offer and drove the cab as that would have been wicked!
- Joe Dawson
Mayb e he was waiting for he phrase Your driving like you were two fisted? :)
- Fred Grott
Love it. Similar to that, I always say, "Let's give the community the house, not the hammer." Too many brands are launching with empty tools, not using the tools themselves to give users a reason to engage.
- Craig Ritchie
from twhirl
Thats a great line and it couldn't be more true...it brings countless examples to mind.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Mind if I quote you on that? I'm speaking at the Florida Association of Museums on social media & most of my audience will not really know what social media is but have awareness they have to adapt to new communication styles to be/stay relevant. It's also a great analogy for cities - branding on distinctive lifestyle not just on creative class amenity buzzwords.
- Julia Gorzka
I intended to agree when I first read this but then I thought about actual branded bars and remembered that they almost always suck. They boil down to a giant ad with no soul. And most of the virtual branded bars (read: brand communities) feel like that.
- Johannes Kleske
Johannes, I think that's actually part of the takeaway (or at least, it should be). The best places to hang out are the ones that feel genuine, not the ones that suffer from so much kitsch or cool that it hurts. The same is true whether it's bars or communities.
- FFing Enigma
Yeah, in the end for me it comes down to the question if a brand has heart and soul.
- Johannes Kleske
French bread pizzas are the worst for this!!!
- Paul Reynolds
the sauce tip in wikihow is a good tip
- Stefan Hayden
Well when I heat up pizza in the microwave I only do it for like 15 seconds thats ussually enough. I never do it for more then 25 seconds.
- Colide81 (James)
Though my pizza isn't frozen its just kinda cold from being in the frigerater.
- Colide81 (James)
Sounds like a legitimate reason for buying an infrared thermometer.
- Dave Roth
Tombstone anyone? Best frozen pizza around?
- TDavid
frozen pizza? microwave? yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk, serves you right
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
I think Red Baron is the best frozen pizza
- Stefan Hayden
Upon reading this, it is your formal duty to bust anybody who violates this rule in FF threads. It's not Legos, it's LEGO. It's not Lego, it's LEGO. It's not LEGOS, it's LEGO. It's not LEGOs, it's LEGO. ALWAYS. </prick>
In informal exchanges, lax style doesn't bother me so much. Mistakes are always made, but you at least owe it to yourself to know the "right" way to do something.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
is that why you didn't join the legoS room?????
- Mona Nomura
Leggos make delicious pasta sauces though...
- Johnny
"The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services."
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - "Lego" is officially written in all uppercase letters. The company asserts that to protect its brand name, the word Lego must always be used as an adjective, as in "Lego set", "Lego products", "Lego universe", and so forth.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
They have a new iPhone app that allows you to build LEGO and order it online... It's still buggy though, it tends to brick the phone... BOOM-TISH!
- Johnny
Yeah , yeah, so since when is it our duty to "preserve the brand"?
- Brian Sullivan
What about double branding? Such as "LEGO my Eggo"?
- Andrew Dobrow
I am just curious as to when the begin prick tag started ;)
- Tim Hoeck
I'll play with my Legos any way I darn well please. Even if that means saying legos instead of LEGO bricks. It's not my job to protect your brand. It's my job to have fun with your product. Your brand is your problem, not mine. :p
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
language evolves better then corporate patents. ...I play with Legos!
- NoahDavidSimon
Even the NYTimes doesn't use LEGO. They acknowledge the brand once, but proceed by using Lego. This is how I do it. Could you imagine placing an exclimation mark after every mention of Yahoo!? It just doesn't look right. :P http://query.nytimes.com/gst...
- James Mowery
from twhirl
Doh! I'll fix this on my about page at mattb4rd.com/eloi as soon as I get home. I can't access it from work because they force me to use IE. For some reason I can't login with it. It may be Citrix, who knows?
- Mattb4rd
Hooray for Brian and Alex! Love your comments. You are too right - it is not the consumer's job to "protect the brand", it is the corporation's job. We just get to sit around and play with Legos. :)
- Nathaniel Payne
I try to by buying beversages that use cane sugar such as Sweet Leaf Tea, Mexican Coke, Jones Soda, etc.
- Aaron Myers
No way, I love that stuff. Tastes great with ketchup
- Rahsheen?
l0ckergn0me, artificial sweeteners should be at the top of people's lists of things to avoid. There are far too many studies linking artificial sweeteners to the aggravation of symptoms related to all manner of mental and emotional problems. A guy I knew quit artificial sweeteners and within six months, his anxiety issues declined enough to where he no longer needs any kind of coping medication. I'd drink a bottle of HFCS before I touched an artificial sweetener.
- Akiva
my thought is that if you are going to have corn syrup, may as well have the high fructose kind. I've tried the low fructose kind and I always think "boy i wish this had more fructose"
- Allen Stern
Actively avoid, no; passively avoid, yes. :-) What I mean is this: Because I'm allergic to everything and because I like good food, I do the bulk of my grocery shopping at Whole Foods. And I believe that High Fructose Corn Syrup (along with artificial sweeteners) is on the official banned-ingredient list. So I'm not ingesting the stuff because someone else is lookin' out for me. :-)
- Joanmarie
It's not drinks that get you: it's sauces, especially if you eat out. OMG are those things full of crap!
- FFing Enigma
totally. akiva. can we get a thread or some info about artificial sweeteners and anxiety? i and plenty of friends love some diet soda, and some of us can be pretty anxious.
- J450N