Nov
19
Look... Shiny!
Hey, Tumblr followers (and there’s 23 of you, much to my amazement)! How you doing? Good, good. So I… Uh huh. Okay, look, I… Right. I… Look, I didn’t ask for your life stories, okay?
So if you like what I’ve infrequently been doing here, and again, against all odds, almost two dozen of you do, would you consider following my other Tumblr site, Big Questions? It’s a daily vlog detailing my 45-day campaign to get a Web video pilot funded, and you’ll be privy to all of it — the thrilling highs, the sludgy lows, and that gristly bit right in the middle. You know, the one that always gets stuck in your molars.
It’s rank self-promotion to ask, and I know this, but these are rank times we live in. So thanks.
Nov
18
Big Questions goes multi-platform
Hi, Tumblr. I know you think I’ve been… well, absent for a while. I know, I know, you think I’ve been spending too much time running around with Twitter, and that Twitter’s shallow. Look, me and Twitter… ? That was totally a summertime thing. What can I say, I have a thing for short girls. But now I’m back, baby, and this time I mean it when I say I’ll never leave you. …What’s that? You say I’ve got something to “promote”? What, you mean like Big Questions, my web video pilot that I’m trying to get funded over at Kickstarter? Or the daily Big Questions vlog I’ve set up to keep supporters updated on the project’s progress? Or the Twitter feed I’ve set up for the Tumblr vlog? Baby. Baby. You know you’re the only one for me. You know I love you, Posterous… Wait. What?
Sep
4
Oh, South Philly Experience truck... You had me at "Whiz."
Dashboard dining from the South Philly Experience truck, parked today at Olympic & Butler in West LA. The roll is Amoroso’s, the beef is thinly-sliced ribeye, and the cheese is — well, there’s only one right cheese for a cheesesteak.
Melty Cheez Whiz explosion. The focus is a little soft because my hands were shaking. From happiness.
Right around here is where it occurred to me that I was a middle-aged man sitting alone in his car photographing his food. Then I finished the sandwich, licked the cheese from the paper and drove home.
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Sep
3
So, that just happened.
Okay. Gonna try auto-posting content from Posterous to Tumblr for a while. (See below.) Having said that, I do have mixed feelings about the wisdom of blasting the same content to various outlets. I mean, Flickr’s good for some things, Facebook for others, Twitter for still others, and I’m not convinced either providers or consumers of content are well served when it’s all an indiscriminate hash, spooned up wholesale onto a bunch of different platters. (Which is, yes, a lovely image.) But Tumblr and Posterous are similar enough in functionality, and in what I want to use them for, that this seems like an experiment worth trying. We’ll see. Thanks for reading, wherever you are.
