Celebrating Top100 Hottest NewEverydayMedia Women of 2012 @(click here on this link for immeadiate all-access) http://mystrawhat.com/newmedia12/INDEX.html … Best of New Year Roses, Grazie. ..
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Contrast & Comparison Piece: Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead and The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whining and Phony Outrage = 2 Most Recent Books I read over the holidays 2012 – 2013.
There are a few of you who may openly represent the majority
and may be like, “first off, why are there even books published on Marketing
Lessons from the Grateful Dead and The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whining
and Phony Outrage? And, why did you read them. What’s wrong with you?!”
And, that’s the first similarity. Both books not only use
the phrase, “lock step and barrel” but explain why outside of a military
mission applying this mentality to business and journalism and an open free society,
in general, is a perilous recipe to follow for low productivity and eventual failure.
For if every citizen followed the “lock step and barrel” mentality with every
neighbor on their street, on their block and their city – what would be the
difference then from living in North Korea?
Neither The Grateful Dead or Greg Gutfeld could have been
birthed by a place like North Korea. They would both be targets of national
pride for letting their “freak flags fly.” But being Greg Gutfeld should not be
a crime here in the free Western World – let alone Manhattan – and the Grateful
Dead should not have been a target for the Nixxon administration (unlike Ronald
Reagan, George H. Bush, G.W. Bush who did not use its reach of power to crack-down
on the Grateful Dead and massive audiences in stadiums & arenas across the
country as the Grateful Dead and Deadhead Nation born in the sixties &
early seventies really flourished and picked up speed on down the track in the
80’s and 90’s and was truly an iconic juggernaut - allowing them to be the most
money making touring act of the time). Furthermore, if there were no Greg
Gutfeld or Grateful Dead, there would be no trickle-down-effect.
“Really,” you ask?
Well, yes. For example, back in the early 70’s even a “roadie”
for The Grateful Dead made $100,000.00 and had healthcare! And, of a common amount,
but certainly not value, Greg Gutfeld’s “roadie” side-kick on one of his shows
on Fox News Channel makes $100,000.00 today in the 21st century. (But,
hey, Bill Schulz lives in Greg’s basement in the old fruit cellar so in Greg’s
defense Bill Schulz doesn’t have to pay for Manhattan rent. So, given that, $100,000.00
in the 70’s and $100,000.00 in 2012 may be a fair wage to try and compare for
essentially the same job requirements). Not to mention that when the Grateful
Dead toured = tens of thousands of people not only attended the shows each
night & day but a big percentage of those tens of thousands of fans toured
around the country with the Grateful Dead as both consumers and entrepreneurs
in whatever town or city the next show was located. (I know in 1995 when the
Grateful Dead played Three River stadium in Pittsburgh, PA with Rusted Root as
its opening act = I personally spent money in downtown Pittsburgh on a hotel
room for me + friends for two nites + I may have had a veggie burrito & bottled
Heineken in the parking lot from some DeadHead who sat-up-shop there to make
enough money for gas to get to the next show of “summer tour”). And, just recently,
Greg Gutfeld had two bus tours promoting his latest book The Joy of Hate: How
to Triumph over Whining and Phony Outrage bringing huge crowds into bookstores across
the country (however, it’s probably not appropriate for me to describe what was
being sold in-the-parking-lot-scene of out of the trunks of vehicles by the
type of entrepreneur Greg Gutfeld’s trickle-down-effect sprouts).
So, where Greg Gutfeld is a practicing libertarian and for
that takes heat from both parties and The Grateful Dead was a target by those too
paranoid to quite dig the perceived trumped-up “counter culture movement” and
survived a ton of heat – rather than fold and just pack-up-shop – both Gutfeld
and The Dead have let their “freak flags fly” and have created prosperity for
themselves and those around them.
And, yet, they are both very different. For instance,
whereas The Grateful Dead did not attend Uni @ Berkeley they were very much
responsible for inventing that Birkenstock lifestyle of those attorneys,
doctors, professors, scientists, engineers & journalists who loved to attend
Grateful Dead shows in Berkeley --- Gutfeld attended Berkeley and hated those attorneys,
doctors, professors, scientists, engineers & journalists who put on their
Bikenstocks, patchouli & tie-dye shirts and attended those coveted Grateful
Dead shows @ Berkeley.
Greg is hated by liberals. The Grateful Dead adored by such
liberals as Bill Clinton himself. There’s a YouTube video of Bill Clinton
emotionally talking about the death of the Grateful Dead’s lead guitarist &
spiritual leader, Jerry Garcia.
In Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead points out for a
successful marketing team, you must be made-up of different types and be able
to roll-with-the-punches looking for new business models & ways to get the
word out to an audience. The Grateful Dead had a mailing list in the early 70’s
thats database was filled with tens of thousands of fans eager to receive
personalized information from the band – also receiving access to the best
seats in the house for upcoming shows before a middle-man-scalper gobbled them
up or were merely left up to a ticketmaster to sell you - which in the 80’s
turned into an email list. Greg Gutfeld has also used new media as a vehicle to
let his audience in on insider information on him & his activities with an
interactive website called The Activity Pit http://activitypit.ning.com/video/greg-gutfeld-anthem-1
+ certainly has surrounded himself with a team made up of different styles of
thinking & experience. Tune-into either of Greg’s shows on FNC, Red Eye
(which appears at 3 a.m.) and The Five (which appears at 5 p.m.) and you’ll see
just how different these people are for a roundtable forum with Greg as the
leader. (The result = a product more edgy than any D.C. “think tank” or
professors lounge at Brown).
True diversity is good. And, true tolerance is good. These
books and their subjects couldn’t exist without true diversity and true tolerance
within a culture.
In conclusion, although these two books and their subjects
are very different from each other they both celebrate the philosophy and
freedom of “truth, justice & the American way" that deserves to be
celebrated at its fullest.
For if we all were the same and targeted for being
different, it certainly would crack-down on the opportunity to make more money
than your neighbor or co-worker and advance in business, politics, culture
& government and life in general.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Greg Gutfeld: Not Afraid of My Own 2 Cents @# The Necessary "Joy of Hate"
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| Not Afraid of My Own 2 Cents @# The Necessary "Joy of Hate"
Greg, after picking-up your latest bad habit called “The
Joy Of Hate” I am about halfway through your latest book "The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage" this Xmas
Eve. ARE YOU ON DRUGS?! Really, either you're on drugs or you're a genius. ..
(or both, I guess, considering the last 3 presidents have been recreational
drug users + JFK “hittin’ it up for his war torn & fray back”). @ any rate,
you're surely breaking new ground here 1). by having this book published 2).
having it "in your own words" w/ out some paranoid editor over your
shoulder saying "no we must take this out --- you can't publish that like
this" ... So I am here to declare it is so far funny, compelling,
raw-truth (@least according to you), + my fingers hurt from holding it it's
that cutting edge & smokin’ red hot & henceforth I can't put it down
(literally or figuratively). Cheers, Old Sport. ..
We'll always have the CAF in Emmaus, PA discussing common grounds of the Organic Harvest grounds of Rodale Inst. (in which you and my family got paid from). ..
Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art @ mystrawhat.com |
Saturday, December 22, 2012
What tasty wine excites Diana Falzone to report "it is dancing on my tongue." ???
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| Find out what tasty wine excites Diana Falzone to report "it is dancing on my tongue." ... also the one wine expert looks a lot like the character on Modern Family, Cameron Tucker, played by Eric Stonestreet |
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Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com
The Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By off of December's Children (And Everybody's) has a direct connection to W.B. Yeats' poem "Among School Children."
"December's Children (And Everybody's)" by The Rolling Stones .... "Tears Go By" has a direct connection to W.B. Yeats' poem "Among School Children."
@#TheEdSullivanShow
Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com
Monday, December 17, 2012
Smarter Than Humans: The Gentle Genius of Bonobos = "make love, not war"
And in a broad brush stroke = what time was that we were more civil? ...Before our ancestors turned a tree branch into a club to kill someone or seriously wound them? The Bonobo are more civil than we are.
In fact, the Japanese scientists who have spent the most time working with wild bonobos describe the species as extraordinarily peaceful, and De Waal has documented how bonobos may often resolve conflicts with sexual contact (hence the "make love, not war" characterization for the species).
Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Yeah, forget about the NHL. 6 Rows back for HOCKEYRobert Morris University vs. Penn State University
Dirty hair and titty rings
Say, "What's your scene, man? We got these questions...
Is it true that you have sold your soul?"
I say, "Hey man, I don't know
Lend me a quarter won't you?
I'll call my accountant."
Let's get off this
And get on with it
If you wanna change the world
Shut your mouth and start to spin it
Get off this
Get on with it
If you wanna change the world
Shut your mouth and start this minute"
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Diana Falzone = Gorgeous
Diana Falzone = Gorgeous
Best of the Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com
Friday, December 7, 2012
don't forget to tune into RedEye @ 3 a.m. on FNC: Takes off shoe
don't forget to tune into RedEye @ 3 a.m. on FNC (they may mention mystrawhat.com again)
Me, I'm waiting so patiently
Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore
Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore
Friday, November 30, 2012
hair and make-up tonite for FNC's The Five: Dana Perino (former WhiteHouse rocker)
From: "mossheadFRENCH77@yahoo.com"
To: thefive@foxnews.com
Cc: TheJoyOfHateBookTour@foxnews.com
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:22 PM
Subject: hair and make-up tonite for FNC's The Five
I like Dana's hair and make-up tonite. .. It looks like the skills of the eye of Maureen Walsh. .. It seemed to help accentuate Dana's points she was just making. .. What Wallace Fowlie would say in his book Dionysus in Paris: Contemporary French Theatre "the moment of communion" ... Where lighting, writing, delivery, feeling of viewer all comes together clicks and makes an inexplicable sense for everyone. ..
Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com
Sunday, November 25, 2012
In Bed with a College Girl: What a SAP? Huh. Here's what I was up to. ..
JAC JR @ Indian Cave Crows Run 1990: Hunting Jacket, turtleneck & Flannel by Ralph Lauren
Here's what I was up to in the early 1990's. What a SAP? Huh.
Jacky Jukebox
Words by John Alan Conte Jr. & Music by Kurt M. Knaus
I wrote the lyrics to this song after blissfully waking up in the bed of
this girl in Milwaukee, Wisconscin in a top floor apartment nearby my
dorm-room. It was such a beautiful morning and nightbefore. I wrote these
lyrics and had a basic melody and then when I transferred into Penn State
University @Uni Park from Marquette University my friend Mike Durr had this
really cool roomate Kurt M. Knaus who played guitar. After a few days of
hanging out and discussing music, politics and pop-culture mass media = Kurt
had the music and the chorus and we played it @ a few parties in front of girls
and his big-room. The poem appears in the only non-published book of mine
called In This Place: a book of the nineties Though noted many poems from this
book was material I used for the many “live” poetry readings I did around the
country and which lyrics used for “live” shows & recordings @ Live Wire
Recordings (Fl.) with the Deerfield Beach, Fl. Band Post Face – This material
was also compiled with other poems to make up a selection Mr. Burns @ Freedom
Area High had me read to his honor & non honor English classes in 1996 (simply
called Poems for Freedom High). ..
Jacky was a jump start jukebox – loved his rock
N roll
Success pouring out from the stories he had
been told
Runnin’ w/ the wild crowd – seeing diamonds in the
snow
Sittin’ back in time so he could watch the
young grow old
Sun shine lit days - the clouds they never came
Until he saw his friends standin’ still not
doing what they will
Where’s the American dream of hot dogs and
Chevorlets
Of growing up to be president - just like USA
made
Jacky died to live it – Jacky always was the
show
Gather together to people to do the right that
we know
(Kurt
added the chorus and contributed all of the music)
Uh – Oh, oh – oh, jump start his world 3x
Uh – Oh, oh – oh, jump start his world
The Story of the Narcissus Flower
(I wrote
this in Spring of 1993 walking down College Ave @ PSU, Uni Park.
The poem
appears in the only non-published book of mine called In This Place: a book of
the nineties Though noted many poems from this book was material I used for the
many “live” poetry readings I did around the country and which lyrics used for “live”
shows & recordings @ Live Wire Recordings (Fl.) with the Deerfield Beach,
Fl. Band Post Face – This material was also compiled with other poems to make
up a selection Mr. Burns @ Freedom Area High had me read to his honor & non
honor English classes (simply called Poems for Freedom High). ..
Looking into the water
What did I see?
Penetrating time
I fell in love w/ me.
You came by
&
Tried to pry me away
But looking deeper inside
Defiant I stayed
Best of the Roses but not rose
colored glasses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com
Thursday, November 22, 2012
1970's Keep America Beautiful Crying Indian PSA
the only tattoo i ever wanted was the face @ the end of this PSA on my arm
best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,
new media matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
CIA Trail of Fire
When love twists the eyes
Of a spy in the calculus of desire
Of a spy in the calculus of desire
We prove to be like a pair of doves
Merely met with the basic instincts
Merely met with the basic instincts
Of what instruments create fire
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses, jC
written yesterday @ dusk by me
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84078.html#ixzz2ClsZAheo
Sunday, November 18, 2012
The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Phony Outrage
... "Oh Boy, This is Gonna Be GREAT!"
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To: mossheadfrench77@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 10:45 AM
Subject: The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Phony Outrage
From: Greg Gutfeld <info@ggutfeld.com>
To: mossheadfrench77@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 10:45 AM
Subject: The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Phony Outrage
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Pets for Vets is a concrete way to thank U.S. Military Veterans for their service.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
You Decide! Who's Hotter: Jill Kelley & her 'Kardashian' twin sister Vs. Paula Broadwell Vs. Bobbie Allen
. .. And the serious world events that have taken place are now
boiled down to the pleasing low simmer of brains like a Jerry Springer episode
zombies love to consume (w/ out even knowing what or why they're being spoonfed)
= Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!!!
Close friends: Jill Kelley (far right) poses with Anne and Holly Petraeus and her twin sister Natalie Khawam (far left)
Jill Kelley - whose own alleged relationship
with General John Allen has led to his nomination to lead American troops in
Europe being put on hold - was invited to the wedding of Anne Petraeus and Matt
Mauney, alongside her twin sister Natalie Khawam, MailOnline can reveal.
Pictures taken at the nuptials clearly show
Kelley, 37, standing just behind the elegant bride as she claps along to a band
and mingles with guests said to have included Vice President Joe Biden - and
illustrate just how far the ambitious brunette had infiltrated the high-powered
political world.
All alone: Paula Broadwell sips a glass of wine after fleeing to her brother Steven's house in Washington DC
It was Paula Broadwell's threatening emails
to Kelley that led to the FBI's discovery of the affair between the
biographer-turned-mistress and the nation's top spy-chief - and then led to General
Petraeus's resignation last Friday.
In another jaw-dropping development it was
then claimed that Broadwell also sent emails to General John Allen, who leads
the U.S. effort in Afghanistan, under the pseudonym 'KelleyPatrol'.
In the catty messages, she called Kelley a
'seductress', warning the general about becoming entangled in a relationship
with her.
This in turn led to a dramatic twist when
sources close to the internal investigation into the scandal said that General
Allen exchanged email's likened to 'phone sex' with Kelley.
images via bobbieallenmusic.com
Bobbie
Allen, 26, is a singer-songwriter who describes “her journey in to music
as serendipitous but destined,” according to her website. Allen says that she was inspired by the Carpenters
and that, since she was constantly moving around due to her father’s military
post, “For Bobbie Allen, home is where the stereo is.” How
poetic!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
You Decide = Who's Hotter? Scarlett Johansson Vs. Diana Falzone
Scarlett Johansson appears on V Magazine's latest issue, The Girl Power Issue, on newsstands Nov. 15. .. And also appears in Obama campaign Ads. Rumor has it more leaks of emails between Obama and Johansson will be released as more information on the so-called "fiscal cliff" is revealed and plays out. ..
And because of a new day and age in the
media = (new media) = you can
tune into Diana Falzone everyday and enjoy a refreshing break from the same old
“programming” from the dinosaur media. Yes, she has her own radio program; is oft
on E! & FNC + fox.com; and in Maxim Mag + Maxim online. She's one of my Fav
new everyday media figures
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Election Day 2012: a Blue Ridge Mtn. Love Song
Written walking-the-dog 6 a.m. 11/3/2012
New Media Matters: an everyday art
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