It's A Brianstorm.

rickyv:

Since there are no results on Google for this term, let me be the one to coin it.

The iPhone Subprime Crisis is what will happen as a result of Apple lowering the point-of-entry price of a new iPhone while increasing the overall cost of ownership over the two year term of the contract (up to $2700!).

People who thought they couldn’t afford an iPhone when they cost $400 now (falsely) feel like they can afford one when it’s $200. After a few months of heavy bills, as the “cell contract foreclosures” begin, look out for a lot of used 3G’s coming to eBay.

Wow, this is a good analogy.  RVV is sort of a genius.

I relearned what a comma splice is today, I hope i haven’t been using it in my writing.

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It’s terms like comma splice and dangling modifiers that scare me away from professionally writing.  How dare I even think about stringing together words without knowing [remembering] all of the rules that govern that practice?

[note: i came up with the title for this post before i realized that what happened here was not really a “faux pas.” i am keeping it the same because i particularly enjoy the pun; even if it could translate to “fake obama.”  a better title may have been Dyslexidential Candidate ]

joy wrote: Omaha’s cool, just super hot and kinda flat and boring.

i [mis]read: Obama’s cool, just super hot and kinda flat and boring.

Bed Folds has a new album, Way to Normal, coming out on September 30th.

Last week, nine tracks from the new album leaked to the internet via an anonymous user on benfolds.org.

Turns out, most of the songs are complete crap.  And not like the fake Death Cab leak where someone retitled a Velveteen album as Narrow Stairs tracks on April fools, but actual crappy recordings from Folds himself.

Most people now think that Folds leaked the bogus tracks himself.

For more info, check out this forum post or this article from a fan site.

If you want to check out the tracks, here is a download link.  [I’m not sure how long that Sendspace link will actually stay up, so don’t be surprised if its gone.]

Some people are upset, some people are flabbergasted that someone would go to the trouble of actually making fake recordings.

I think its absolutely genius.

With a few songs probably making the actual record cut, I think its a great way to get some new music to fans, while having a little bit of fun with the nature of the viral blogweb.

And I am actually loving even the bogus tracks.  One listen, and you can clearly tell that these songs aren’t meant to astound the audience with musical prowess, but to have a little bit of ridiculous fun. They are bad, but awesomely so.

I love it when artists devolve for a breath and just be stupid.  Folds is one of the best at this, and I think its a big reason why I’m such a big fan.

actualdavid:

this is going to be an on going look into the things that pop into my mind and i usually keep to myself but i thought i start sharing them with all of you.

Brian: Ledger’s death is a tragedy for the batman franchise

Me: Ledger’s death was natural selection aided by modern medicine.

this is a follow up to the Bush comment earlier.