TSF4: Mary’s Gone Slackers, is NOW ONLINE!
Posted on December 29, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | 1 Comment
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 4: Mary’s Gone Slackers
We’re mysteriously hungry for crackers, thirsty for new music, high on caffeine but not motivated enough to get this podcast done in a more timely manner. Subscribe with iTunes
Links:
Meandering Rant on Slacking by Patty Pino
Cool Products Book Report featuring:
Music Segment on Ghostly International and the iPhone application, Ghostly Discovery
Eleven Ways NOT to Suck (loosely based on my own experiences)
Posted on December 18, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
Wear black
Listen to bands that don’t exist
Swear off all friends and/or family
Develop an addiction (sex, drugs… anything will work – just ask Tiger)
Marry Up
Eleven Things Frowned Upon in Corporate Meetings
Posted on December 16, 2009 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
Create-Your-Own-Territory Syndrome – making a barrier around yourself by spreading your stuff all over the conference table.
Forgetting to mute on a conference call, and having others hear your dog barking, your kid banging blocks together, or the construction guy drilling in the background.
Asking “Do you want that leader to be photographed in a Tuxedo or a Clown Suit?” (Doesn’t get a laugh; I tried it.)
Admitting “I’m only here for the free snacks.”
Asking “What do all of these acronyms stand for, again?”
Eleven things I hate about winter.
Posted on December 10, 2009 | By Christian | 2 Comments
Ok, I admit it. I am not a winter person. Not even a little bit. And since my wife and kids are sick of hearing me bitch about it, I thought I would share with the world!
- It starts getting dark around lunch.
- Its friggin cold outside!
- Its friggin cold inside!
- Snow! Shoveling it, idiots driving in it, its ability to find its way down the back of my neck. Pretty much everything to do with it.
Why All New Music Sucks, a Meandering Rant from TSF3
Posted on December 9, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
Do we stop appreciating new music after a certain age? AKA Why does all new music suck? Recently re-titled as “Has the now effortless pursuit of new music changed music’s value aka why new music is almost free!”
I long for new music. I easily fall into the media hype of some groundbreaking young band and seek out any and all of their recordings. I have been known to incessantly fight the busy signal of a radio station’s request line in order to ask the DJ the name of the song that was played exactly 27.5 minutes ago. I’ve then called the foreign-based record label to find a local retailer that might actually carry said music. In my eternal quest for the new and different, I’ve canvassed my hip friends for suggestions, begrudgingly tuned in local college radio, combed the billboard charts, made purchases based solely on the esoteric words of a music journalist, I’ve dragged my classy, sophisticated girlfriend (now wife) through the rough and tubmble streets of Greenwich Village, New York City to seek out musty old music shops that carry used records and spend hours flipping through bins of dusty vinyl – only with the promise of returning the favor by agreeing to window shop at Tiffany’s on 5th Avenue, subscribed to new music CD services (remember CMJ?), provided false names to both the Columbia and BMG music clubs… even purchased random CDs based solely on the cover art or some annoyingly pretentious record store clerk.
But, that was a long time ago and much has changed in my life…
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