And we wonder why the youth of today is so fucked up. After the train wreck that was Britney Spears, we now have her sister Jamie Lynn Spears getting knocked up at 16, having the baby and then rapping about reproduction in a video from Omovies…while dressed in a seductively hot, please-fuck-me, nurses uniform with her sizable cleavage hanging out.
Preaching aside, I’d fuck her in a second if there weren’t morals and rules about these sorts of things which, though restraining at times, keep us all from turning into a race of fuck buddies humping each other until either the world becomes littered with starving babies or we all die from STDs.
Justine, she with the most perfect skin in the world, says there’s no more iPhones in the world after calling 35 stores. Of course, she knows that’s not true but that didn’t stop her from making a video about it.
Last night at the Commonwealth Hotel in Boston, wine guru Gary Vaynerchuck hosted his WLTV Thunder Show in front of a live audience eager to drink in his wine expertise. The room was packed with geekerati busily multitasking between Twitter, their camera phones and, occasionally, each other. As always, Gary wowed the crowd with wit, humor and stellar wine expertise.
And Gary got a warm welcome from host Dmitri Gunn who replaced Gary V’s Jets spittoon with one branded with the Patriots logo. Hilarity ensued. (Continued)
It’s no surprise Microsoft gets crapped on by so many people for so many things. Here’s just one small example. In February, I was asked to write a post-Super Bowl article about advertising in the game for MSNBC and I was promised about $350 as payment. Honestly, I don’t remember the exact amount it’s been so long but it sounded like a good deal at the time. I’ve worked in advertising a long time. I’ve written about it for a long time. I like advertising. Why not get paid to do so? Perfect, right? Not so much.
The writing part was fine. The article was published. Of course, I was crucified for my usual handful of typos and incomplete sentences but isn’t that what editors are for? But, that’s another story. To get paid, I was told I’d have to become a Microsoft vendor and there’d be a few forms to fill out. Four months later, I’m still filling out forms and no check has arrived.
First, there was the maddeningly convoluted online form that went on and on and on asking questions completely unrelated to to the task I performed for MSNBC. After putting off this daunting task for a couple of weeks I dove in. An hour after beginning, I finished filling out the form but a week later, I get an email informing me something had gone wrong and I would have to go through the process again. Excuse me but no thank you. (Continued)
So everyone wants their own domain name, right? So years a go, I check to see if stevehall.com is taken. Sadly, it is. It’s not surprising though given Steve hall being such a common name. So Steve Hall, the publisher of Adrants, creator of AdGabber, a dude who’s been online since AOL has fewer than one million members doesn’t get his name as his domain name.
Who gets stevehall.com? A pianist named Steve Hall. I’m sure he’s a nice guy…and I’m sure he’s never going to give up stevehall.com. I wouldn’t. So here I am with the silly url stevehallismyname.com. How idiotic. How wordy How impossible to remember. But, hey, it’s all there was left thanks to domain name sqautters who register every conceivable word combination for no apparent purpose but to frustrate those of us who would actually use the domains.
My name is Steve Hall. I’m an ad guy. Or, at least, I was before I got fired for wasting too much time on the job writing Adrants, now my full time obsession which, thankfully, pays all the bills. Somewhere along that path of goofing off at work, I co-founded the online marketing site MarketingVOX. I also publish the ad:tech weblog and founded AdGabber, a social networking site for the advertising industry.
So that’s me Steve Hall. Hopefully I will have something interesting to say here. If not, this will be the first and last post on this site and waste of the $24 I sent GoDaddy for the right to use mynameisstevehall.com for two years. Time will tell.
And we wonder why the youth of today is so fucked up. After the train wreck that was Britney Spears, we now have her sister Jamie Lynn Spears getting knocked up at 16, having the baby and then rapping about reproduction in a video from Omovies…while dressed in a seductively hot, please-fuck-me, nurses uniform with her sizable cleavage hanging out.
