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As a creative copywriter, when I sit down to write a blog, I’m not always sure what I’m going to write about.
STAN: No shirt, Sherlock! That’s pretty evident!
HARRIETT: Stan! Language!
STAN: Sorry, Harriett, but it’s obvious Goldenberg has trouble coming up with brilliant ideas. It’s been over a month since the last blog. What’s the matter? Is he too busy to make his Readers happy?
HARRIETT: Sometimes Life interferes with what you want to do.
STAN: What’s got Golberg…
HARRIETT: That’s Goldenberg..
STAN: Yeah. Yeah. What’s got Golberg so busy he can’t put out a measly brilliant blog once a week?
HARRIETT: Well, it’s taken time to get his house back in shape after it was hit by a 100 ft. tree.
On April 27, 2011, a 100 ft. tree and Jack Goldenberg's house occupied the same space
HARRIETT: He’s been going into the city for some very revealing meetings…
NAKED COWBOY'S MOM TO NAKED COWBOY: So how's your job in NY going? NAKED COWBOY: Great, Mom, I had great exposure on Broadway. NAKED COWBOY'S MOM: So, you're still in show business? NAKED COWBOY: Yes, Mom, I show my business every day.
HARRIETT: He’s been tending to his garden.
These flowers are so gorgeous, they looklike they're from Cote de Fleurie Studio, but they're not. They're from Jack's garden.
HARRIETT: And he’s been stealing.
STAN: I knew it. Goldberg’s not only a lousy writer, he’s a thief too. It doesn’t surprise me.
HARRIETT: No, Stan. He stole third base last week when he played catcher for the Denville Blasters.
STAN: You sure they didn’t use him as a base?
July 27, 2011--Denville Blaster's catcher, Jack Goldenberg, slides into third base ahead of the throw
Today, I didn’t know whether to write about the hottest thing on the Web, Google+, Google’s new social network, or the cool new way to search on Twitter. Also, I’ve never announced the winners of the Win Some of Jack Cool Stuff Contest. That was over a month ago. It turns out there were only 3 Winners.
STAN: Hah!
HARRIETT: What’s the “Hah!” for?
STAN: Of course, there were only three winners. Only 3 people entered the Contest.
I also wanted to show you a YouTube video that’s a take off on West Side Story and a horrifyingly funny commercial I think you’ll like. And finally, I’ve got TV reviews from Ely, our ace pop culture critic in a new feature called, Ely’s Telly. Since I couldn’t decide which topic to cover, I decided to write about them all.
STAN: Ahhh, the favorite choice of the ADD-addled brain: All of the above! I’m telling you Harriett, we’d better fasten our seat belt. It looks like we’re in for a long ride.
I’ll start with Phoenix West. It’s not a place. Well, all right, of course it is a place, but the Phoenix West I’m talking about is a person. One very cool person I interviewed with a couple weeks ago.
Now I knew Phoenix West was going to be a cool dude. (I know. I know. I’m waaaay to old to use the word, “Dude.”) I know Phoenix West was going to be cool even before I met him because he’s got such a cool and interesting name. It’s scientifically proven that a person’s CQ, Coolness Quotient, is directly proportional to how their name is perceived.
STAN: Is that true?
HARRIETT: No, of course not, Stan! Writers tend to embellish and Jack, well, he embellishes with the best of them.
Howdy Doody's leading lady, Princes Summerfall Winterspring
Take the leading woman on The Howdy Doody Show, Princess Summerfall Winterspring. How could you not be cool with a name like Princess Summerfall Winterspring? Come to think of it, Flub-a-Dub had a pretty cool name, too. Come to think of it, the entire cast had cool names. Phineas T. Bluster. Chief Thunderthud. Buffalo Bob. Clarabell the Clown wasn’t a bad moniker, either.
Flub-a-Dub was actually the stage name of Henry Baresford Tipton.
And when you look at the opposite end of the spectrum, the CQ still holds up. Would you go to a movie starring Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff and Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.? Of course not! Those names just don’t have any star quality.
Not quite as cool when you think of them as Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff and Roy Scherer, Jr, right?
But Doris Day and Rock Hudson, they have superstar written all over them.
STAN: He’s going off on a tangent again. Whatever happened to Phoenix West?
HARRIETT: Patience, Stan, patience.
Which brings me back to my meeting with Phoenix West. It turned out, he’s working on, Guava World, a new slant on humorous programming on the Web. Lots of start-ups have gone bankrupt tring to put productions on the Web. But I think PhoenixWest may be the first person to make it happen BIG TIME.
Great Content: You Tube Videos
The following videos were sent to me by my Ace Reporter in Florida, Tony Witlin, aka my college roommate. The first one, from CollegeHumor, is a terrific web parody about “the Sharks, the Jets and, a girl I just met, named Maria.”
Next up, a shockingly funny (and effective) commercial:
NEXT, A report from TVLAND:
Ely’s Telly: Featuring Jerseylicious and Masterchef
There are so many TV programs to watch it is mind boggling. Every television season there’s the constant battle of what looks good and what does not. The following are a few of shows that I’m watching. They’re some of my favorites. They may not be yours.
If you’re into reality shows, then I recommend Jerseylicious on the Style network. This is my favorite show. I cannot wait until Sunday comes to see the newest episode. I was kind of turned off when I heard the show was about people that work in the Gatsby Salon in New Jersey. When I actually watched it, I found out it was more about the interaction of the employees than about the salon business.
Last season the show was focused on the feud between salon owner Gayle and make-up artist Alexis. The feud started when Gayle hired Alexis and made her a partner. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the viewers), the two did not get along. (Then again, would the show producers been interested in them if they did get along? I don’t think so.)
Alexis eventually left the Gatsby Salon to set up her own salon, the Glam Factory. In Season 2, Jerseylicious featured a constant and escalating battle between makeup artist Olivia and hair stylist Tracy. The two really go at it. For me this is exciting TV. I can’t wait until the next episode to see how the fight turns out.
Another show I like is Masterchef, on Tuesdays on Fox. It focuses on a competition to turn an amateur cook a master chef. When the program starts, the amateur cooks make signature dishes for the three judges who are well known chefs themselves, Gordon Ramsey, Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich.
When the signature dishes were sampled the best ones were selected and those cooks go through to the next level of competition. Challenges weed the 20 something finalists down to 17. Then each episode after that comprises of a challenge of some kind that requires a winner. If the episode is a mystery box challenge the judges have picked a group of ingredients for the cooks to make a dish with. The top three dishes that the judges like are chosen to be sampled and a winner is declared.
I am not a cook but I like to watch this because it does not focus on the cooking of it but the interaction of the cooks to each other and the judges. Also it shows non-cooks things they might be able to create themselves. Lately, Masterchef, like the meals they’re cooking, is heating up. The outbursts by home cook Christian make it pretty interesting to watch that as well.
There are three other shows I’d like to tell you about: Switched at Birth, The Nine Lives of Chloe King and a lawyer show, Franklin & Bash. But I’ll save them for my next report. Until then, keep watching your favorite show, but don’t be afraid to try out a new show. You just might find a new favorite.
Ely Yublosky Bio
Ely Yublosky is Social Media Manager for JEM Consulting, a div. of A-BnC Parties and More, Inc. She helps do-it-yourselfers edit pictures and videos. Sometimes she helps people take pictures or videos if they are needed. She also shares her knowledge as a WordPress tutor. In her free time she likes to organize items: personal and computer files and even kitchen cabinet items. Also she likes to watch movies and TV shows. In fact her car license is TVNUT4.
And now, an apology
When I started today’s blog, I’d hope to give you some tips on the most exciting, new thing on the web, Google +. I also wanted to cover a great new way to search on Twitter and I wanted to give credit to the three Grand Prize Winners in the Win Some Jack’s Cool Stuff Contest (personally I heard the Winners were Readers Robin Wexler, Stuart Bernstein and Christina Ciani.) But, even for me…
STAN: And for me…
HARRIETT: And even for me…
…this blog has gone on long enough. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate all the new Readers who have signed up and all my Readers who’ve been with me since the start. If you like what you’ve read, come back. If not, come back anyway. And be sure to leave me a comment so I know you’re still out there. What did you like about today’s blog. What could you have done without? I need to know, so don’t be shy.
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