Too Big For Twitter, Too Small For a Blog Post
Re: Home Business Branding
You wanna talk about branding? Check out this chick. Diane and Walter, who I’m going to assume are husband and wife, run a business called Novel Website Design. That link goes to their services page. Check out the names of their packages. Get it? Emulate this. This is fucking brilliant.
Re: Seasonal Marketing
There is a bar in this city with bad food, reasonable drinks, and the best patio in the history of patios. Nobody older than 23 would actually sit on that patio most of the time because it’s chock full of students being, well, students. On their little sign out front today it says:
“110 Days Until The Students Return. Come To Our Patio While You Still Can.”
Never would have crossed my mind. Now what am I going to do tonight? I’m going to this bar. Fucking brilliant, once again.
Re: Parenting
My son Michael will be nine in a few weeks. He is getting a PlayStation Portable — like a GameBoy on steroids — for his birthday. At the time of this statement, he did not know this.
“When I told Grammy I wanted a PSP for my birthday she looked at me like I was out of my mind. She’s like, [Grammy voice] What are you going to do with it?” She always asks that. About everything. Always. [Grammy voice again.]“What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with it?” It’s a video game system. I’m going to play video games. What does she think I’m going to do with it? Use it as a hammer? Sew with it?”
He is so much like me I don’t know whether to cry or give him a high five.
Re: Akismet
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BRILLIANT!
Love the PSP post. I’d give him a high five!
I loved the double entendre for “The Climax” package from Novel Web Design. Playing off both technical terms and erotic connotations is brilliant.
I like how packages make things easy for clients but I haven’t been able to figure out how to make them work for my business. I make websites but I don’t think packages like that company is offering make any sense (though they do have very clever names!). Most clients don’t fit into one of those boxes, they need 150 pages but no CMS, or 3 pages and a blog, etc.
“He is so much like me I don’t know whether to cry or give him a high five.”
Being able to see the funny and absurd in life is a great gift. I say give him a high five. Also curious to know, where did YOU get your attitude towards life?
Sounds like you may like http://www.tumblr.com/ for stuff that are too big for Twitter and too small for Wordpress blog.
Novel website was hella clever.
Sweet spin on the patio … makes me rethink how to position products in down times.
Yep, those pacakages were totally clever. :) I have already started picking clever names for our own, even before I read this.
And your son is awesome.
Heh heh. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, Naomi.
Those Novel folks have done some very attractive sites. *Extremely* attractive. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to pay much attention to valid html - a common failing for many very talented designers.
I wrote something recently entitled “More than a pretty face” - you can probably guess what it was about.
I laughed so hard I almost choked about the PSP comment. That sounds so much like my son, it’s sick. He’s so much like me it’s both delightful and scary.
Brilliant marketing on the patio & the Novel website. Brilliant!
Isn’t great how people come up with great ideas and you say to yourself, “Man why didn’t I think of that?”
If I was there, I would give your son a high five too!
Naomi,
The answer is, tear your hair out while choking back laughter. I do it every doggone day with my 9-year-old.
The other day she was being all psycho-emotional while my parents were visiting (natch, because I tell them she’s an angel). My mother says, “just like a teenager.”
I point out, no Ma, she’s still got four years to go, and my Dad deadpans, “It’s a very smooth ramp.”
Oh, great, something to look forward to.
This doesn’t help at all, does it?
Regards,
Kelly
Kids say the darndest things. I had a girlfriend a few years back that had a 4-year-old daughter. We were all in the car listening to U2, and that song was on with the line “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”. Well, you can imagine that we had to explain that expression.
Hours later, after dinner, her daughter looked over at me and said (with a straight face, so serious), “Fish don’t need scissors, either.”
Where do they get this stuff?
Naomi,
Your kid’s b-day is in a few weeks? Is he a Gemini? Me too!
He will entertain you that way . . . and some more maybe. . .
@ Akemi — Yup, a Gemini. God help us. :-)
Actually, your son sounds like me complaining about my mother.
“Why does she say that? I don’t want to hear that. Same thing all the time… why does she say that? What does she think I’m doing, sheesh.”
Love you, mom, even though you’ll never read this comment.
I have nothing to smart to say, just thanks for that cool little collection of stuff. I’m tired and fresh out of clever, so blatant ass-kissing praise is all you get tonight.
Thanks for the shout out, Naomi! A compliment from anyone is wonderful. From this blog? It fuckin’ rocks.
Big thanks and keep up the great blog.
Do we have to say “fuckin” on this blog or is it still optional?
Still optional. It just tends to bring out the latent F-word in people.
It’s true. Although the word makes up a fair amount of the conversation between my husband and me, there’s just about no other place I can safely say it. But the opportunity to say it on a blog? In print? No fuckin’ way am I passing that up. :)
Thanks, Naomi!
@Kelly- “…my Dad deadpans, “It’s a very smooth ramp.””
Still laughing…
Great patio sign!!!!
Janice,
I’m afraid the words will be echoing in my head for many years now. It should be a warning sign on her bedroom door. ;)
Regards,
Kelly