Category: Posts
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Strip Club Booze Ban in Detroit?
According to the Detroit News website, Detroit City Council might put rules in place to ban alcohol at clubs with topless dancing. Some lawyer (and member of a large metropolitan church) says “Our goal is to do all we can within the law to root them out. We don’t want the city of Detroit to…
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Another Sign of Changing Times
When I was younger, the funkiest radio station in Detroit used to be WGPR-FM 107.5. This radio station used to be the home of The Electrofying Mojo, one of my three all-time favorite DJs (the others are Mike Halloran of Radios in Motion and Brent Bambury of Brave New Waves). WGPR also had Mason In…
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TV Season Finales for 2009
For the past few years, TV season finales have been lame. Mostly because they seem to be either “shock” endings that come out of nowhere (like the shooting of a minor character at the end of The Closer) or they just seem to be there (like the hand holding stare of Scrubs). I understand that…
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Wrestling With Bouts of Creativity
For some reason, I have these periods in my life where I am just excessively creative and overflowing with ideas. When these times come, I try to ride that train as long as I can because I know it won’t last forever. The only drawback is that I don’t realize I am in a creative…
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Maybe It’s Just Me
I have a friend with an ex in prison, three children between the ages of 14 and 10 (I’m never quite sure the exact ages), a history of very dubious choices and a very sweet (but extremely malleable) personality. This friend and her children used to stop by the house five or six days out…
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Was this rude?
Telemarketer: Hello Derek, I’m calling from All-State Insurance and we have discounts in your area… Derek: Hold on, is this about the job application I put in with you guys? Telemarketer: Um, no… Derek: I have nothing to say to you then. Goodbye. [Click]
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Noise I Never Made, Part Two
The second batch of notes were from the time just before Episode 100, where I was revisiting my original concept for Deliberate Noise. The original concept was scrapped due to a long running time. Episode 100 was almost three hours long. I didn’t mind doing something like that as a one-off, but doing a weekly…
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Noise I Never Made, Part One
As I was going through some papers, I found two lists of show ideas. One was from the planning stages of my podcast. These notes predate the Deliberate Noise 0 show. The ideas that I never used were:TV Noise – I was going to talk about the pilots that were floating around the internet and…
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No Good Affiliate Marketing Podcasts?
I was listening to an episode of Good Clean Fun where Michael Butler was talking about attending the Affiliate Marketing Summit. He gave a brief synopsis of what he thought affiliate marketing was and unlike a lot of other people, he made it sound semi-interesting. I know that a lot of people think that the…
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Skype Ridiculousness
I know I should keep away from Skype after the frustration of this past summer, but they have refunded a considerable amount of my money in the form of Skype Credit. However, the only thing you can do with Skype Credit is spend it on Skype stuff. And I’m not talking about some of the…