Old Gold: How to Speak Marketing
In honor of Marketing Guys across the country having the easiest job EVER right now (well, aside from those slashed budgets), here’s one pulled from the archives.
Snowed In!
I almost feel bad for how much trash I talked to the soccer moms at the tire place getting studs put on. Almost. They are still morons, but we are going on almost a week of snow and treacherous roads in Portland, with no signs of stopping. My second flight got canceled and they couldn't get me on another until the red eye Xmas eve so I said screw it and decided not to go. Thank you frequent flyer miles, I not only got my miles back at no charge, but they refunded the $10 I paid. I will make the pilgrimage to Vermont some other time, when the weather…
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Blogging is Ruining my Life
Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
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Yes I still snowboard!
I guess technically Sunday was the first day of my season, but I don't really want to count strapping in twice and falling dramatically both times as a day. So that means today was my official first day of the season. Ridiculously late at the fault of the snow, not me, but at least the gondola I was on didn't fall down. Meadows opened up Sunday, but I spent yesterday dealing with trying to get my studs put on. Newsflash: the day after the storm is not the best time to try and get this done. Every soccer mom and moron in a Kia felt the need to do the…
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The Storm of the Century!
Yesterday I really meant to go up to the mountain, but man, that thing is far away. But as a snowboard journalist, opening day is like money in the bank, and I wasn't about to totally blow it. Luckily, it also snowed in the city, much more convenient for myself. So I rounded up some hungover friends, set up my brand new board, and made it happen. The result was this YoBeat feature (and a very sore hip.) Enjoy.
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Urban First Descents
The mountain is open! But the real shredding went down much closer to home.
So there’s no snow here yet…
But I am still trying to come up with content for snowboard sites, preferably that doesn't require talking to people or going to parties. Here's what I came up with.
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When technology goes horribly wrong…
Is it just me or do television commercials seem especially bad/disturbing lately? On top of the fact that every ad agency clearly has their Pandora station set to "Feist Radio" when choosing songs, the digital technology has gone too far. I mean, some of the commercials in regular rotation are causing me nightmares, so I can't even imagine what they are doing to impressionable young children. Here are the three ad campaigns I wish would just go away. Samsung and AT&T I know! Let's play off the over use of acronyms in texting because our phone makes it easy to type things out. But just showing people texting would be…
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