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Take Talk Radio With You While You Surf The Web

Written by on April 2, 2010
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Recently I was presented with a talk radio toolbar that was put together for the express purpose of making it snap easy to stream audio content from all your favorite conservative talk radio hosts to your PC while you surf the web.  The toolbar itself is powered by a software platform designed by an Israeli company called Conduit, which has a good reputation and have gone to considerable lengths to ensure their toolbar platform is not used for malicious intent or as a precursor to force malware onto an unsuspecting user.  So far their platform has been used by over 200,000 publishers with considerable success.

This particular toolbar makes it easy to consolidate the links and streaming content from talk radio hosts you tend to listen to the most, precluding the need to hunt down each audio stream individually, so if you’re the sort of talk radio junkie who just luuuurvs using browser toolbars, this should be a nice fit for you.  (Personally I use three toolbars for similar reasons, including StumbleUpon for shameless promotion and aimless web surfing.)

Should you decide you hate it and hope I die in a fire for even suggesting such a ghastly thing, here’s an eHow page with easy instructions on removing the toolbar.  Enjoy!

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From Neverland to La-La Land!

Written by on January 20, 2010
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First thing I did when I got into work today was excitedly ask people what they thought of the Scott Brown election. The typical conversation went like this:

“So did you hear about the election in Massachusetts last night???”

Blank look.

“Um, you have heard about the election between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley right, and that if Brown pulled it off he would be removing the super majority in Congress and possibly stopping Obamacare dead in its tracks?”

Blank look.

“… so… how ’bout them Jets?”

“Oh man, they were totally AWESOME dude! We’re gonna win the Super Bowl BABY!!!!”

I have to get out of this place.

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Angry White Men Black Women

Written by on January 20, 2010
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So I’m in court today (don’t ask), waiting to take the elevator down so I can head out and buy more brownies, when this black lady walks up to wait with me, and starts ranting away about something, presumably on the cell phone. We got into the elevator, and she continues to keep on ranting as we went down. Loud too. The only thing I could catch was something about “Brown” and “white people” in “Massachusetts.”

When I caught that, I had to stifle a grin. But then I realized something else. She wasn’t on the phone. I thought she had been railing away on the cell via a bluetooth headset, but she was actually just ranting out loud to no one in particular.

When I realized that, it was all I could do not to burst out laughing. I moved to the corner of the elevator, desperately trying to hold my face together with my hand. Finally the doors opened up and she walked out, still railing away. “….&*#$ white people!!”

I just broke out laughing from there, then headed out the doors, taking in the cool air and the warm sunshine. My brownie will be extra tasty today. :-D

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Achieving The Impossible

Written by on January 20, 2010
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Well, Brown did it.

The irony of what transpired last night is so rich not even a German chocolate cheesecake could compete. Consider that this election took place in Massachusetts, in the bluest of blue states, where the seeds of the first revolution began, where the first tea party took place, and which resulted in a Republican taking over what was once the Liberal Lion Ted Kennedy’s seat after a 35 POINT SWING in the polls, just in time for Obama’s one year anniversary since he took office.

If that doesn’t tell you that there is a God, and that He has a sense of humor, I don’t know WHAT will. This was divine providence, and only the most hardened atheist would deny it.

So I guess I’m going to Beantown after all. Or perhaps Wrentham, Brown’s home town. This place seems to be the sight of miracles, so maybe a visit there could get me some left over magic dust so I can achieve the impossible too, and find the girl of my dreams. :-D

I’ll tell you one place I probably won’t visit again: the Berkshires. Based on the map I linked to, just about all of the eastern half of Massachusetts (save for Boston and Martha’s Vineyard) went for Brown, while the western half persisted in living in la-la land. I had gone to Stockbridge in December for a Christmas weekend, and the town there went for Coakley by a margin of 75% to 25%. Gees, no wonder everyone was so unfriendly. I KNEW I wasn’t imagining it.

Fortunately, Braintree/Quincy, the sight of John Adams’ hometown both went for Brown. Yay! If I go one of the first things I plan to do is to go visit his house (now a national park) and take a walk into the past. I can’t wait!

Thank you Scott Brown for affording me the opportunity to visit a Kennedy-free state at long last, to breathe in the aromas of a new revolution.

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I have had an epiphany (which I can’t do ZIP about now)

Written by on January 18, 2010
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While I’ve been thinking about ways to get more traffic and links to my site here, something occurred to me: there was one particular way that I could have easily gotten a huge spike in traffic and finally put my blog on the map.

I could have gone to Massachusetts and volunteered for Scott Brown’s campaign. Seriously. A mad dash to Worcester just for the weekend would have put me in the middle of all the action and given me so much blogging fodder that people would have been hard pressed to ignore me then. Think of the possibilities: me blogging live while I meet and greet Brown supporters at rallies. Or posting photos of me shaking Scott Brown’s hand. And then photos of me flirting with his daughter Ayla Brown, begging for her phone number. And then photos and vids of Scott Brown punching my lights out after flirting with said daughter.

Oh, the possibilities… :-D

I could have done it too, except ironically enough my money was already tied up in launching a marketing campaign. Um, whoops?

It was a missed opportunity, but I’m sure others will come along, especially as we get closer to the 2010 elections. I’m glad I had this revelation now though. In order to breathe life into my blog, I really do have to put myself out there, instead of waiting for the action to come to me. I even thought about going down to Haiti too, hitching a ride with Red Cross and just going down there to help out wherever I could. And then of course, I’d blog about the experience. And blog, and blog, and blog…

That’s been my objective for a while, to somehow bridge the desire to help others with my love for writing, but I had been so narrowly focused on trying to bring more traffic to my site that I had failed to consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the traffic would take care of itself if I instead focused on writing and living life the way I’ve always wanted to. So I’m not self-employed just yet, but I can certainly ACT like I am. :-D

Maybe instead of chasing the dream, I should be LIVING the dream, and the rest will fall into place. The battle is already won, the race already done, the future made, the foundation laid, and I need only claim the victory. :)

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