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Music Review - Hot Chip - British Band at the Music Hall of...

rick@barbariangroup.com(Rick Webb) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:40 -0500

Music Review – Hot Chip – British Band at the Music Hall of Williamsburg – NYTimes.com p. This show was awesome. I had such a good time. I smiled and danced the whole time. LIKE YOU DO.

Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference?

rick@barbariangroup.com(Rick Webb) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:41 -0500

Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference?: typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider (Silicon Alley Insider) :p. New desktops! New desktops!

Gowns Break Up, Post Final Epic Song 

rick@barbariangroup.com(Rick Webb) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:41 -0500

Gowns Break Up, Post Final Epic Song: PitchforkLatestNews (Pitchfork: Latest News) :p. I liked this band and I am sad to see them go – but I am also really into the idea of every band, when they are ready to break up, posting a final, 17 minute epic farewell song. That would be kind of awesome. Then when they reunite, they have to play that song first. To cleanse the palette, so to speak.

"AND NOW, with the advent of Undercover Boss, we find we have come to a new stage in television: An..."

rick@barbariangroup.com(Rick Webb) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:42 -0500

“AND NOW, with the advent of Undercover Boss, we find we have come to a new stage in television: An entire prime-time show that is, in effect, an hour-long corporate public relations message, broadcast to a far larger audience than the corporation could ever hope to reach itself, courtesy of one of our nation’s premiere television networks. Can you even begin to imagine the amount of money that an unsexy company like Waste Management, for chrissake, would have had to spend to buy an amount of media exposure equal to a full hour of prime time directly after the Super Bowl? It quite literally could not have been purchased with all the money in Waste Management’s coffers!”

- _p. Undercover Boss: Advertainment’s Fourth Wave – Television – Gawker: gawker/full (Gawker)

Hamilton uses too many exclamation points. And his math is way off (figure $3mil per spot, 30 spots per hour, $90 mil? Yes. Waste Management could afford $90 mil .) But still. Wasn’t that show crazy? Man. Future of advertising. I added it to my Tivo. I wonder if it’ll be good or boring going forward.

lacontessa: Leon Bakst Ashley Holtgraver portrait.

rick@barbariangroup.com(Rick Webb) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:42 -0500

lacontessa :

p. Leon Bakst