Lambie-Nairn is a company that helps television channels develop a brand image. Last year, they created these promos for the digital BBC Three channel. They star the “blobs,” little red creatures that speak in a language that sounds suspiciously like BBC audio archives. Pretty great. Also, the company helped create an image for Alhurra, the [...]
Okay. I’m sorry about anything bad I might have said about audiobooks. As in, “They’re for people who can’t read,” or “That shitty radio?” or “Tony Robbins can kiss my poor, living-check-to-check ass.” Thanks to Audible.com, I’ve had a change of heart. While flying to and from my high school reunion in Minneapolis, I listened [...]
“A lot of what they were talking about was the man, the human being, how much he loved his wife, the kind of relationship they had, and he was really portrayed in this really human, emotional way…I really loved that, and I wish that we had gotten more of a chance to really know about [...]
Y’all should check out Hookers on Stilts, my friend Britt’s blog. It’s pretty awesome. I don’t know how she finds the time to write so much. Hmm. Maybe because she doesn’t watch so much baseball…
There’s the CEO and president of JoelMeyer.com in living black and white newsprint, right behind Mary-Kate Olsen. (She steps on toes, by the way.) This was published in USA Today on May 18, 2004. And considering that source…I can verify that this story was true.
Bill Clinton at Book Expo America, June 4, 2004: “I am from, I think, a more traditional American positiongoing back to the founderswhich is that politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.” Hear the whole thingall 50-plus minutes of it, twenty more than he was allottedat audible.com. [...]
Melissa Auf Der Maur played bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins during the late ’90s. And I’ll admit to having kind of a crush on her for about as long as it took to read a Spin magazine article in an airport lounge one afternoon. In the interview, she came off as being the [...]