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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Things to do while you're alive [Change to less pandering title]

I have decided that one of the things to do while I am alive something I would like to do is stop using my blog to gratuitously attract traffic from prominent ad agencies monitoring what random tastemakers and MWR might be writing about their slogans. This has not been an easy decision for me, because I do enjoy my periodic visits from the blog search page for a certain the catchphrase "Things to do while you're alive". But it just doesn't seem fair for me to waste everyone's time, including my own, by trying to work that the catchphrase "Things to do while you're alive" into the blog for no good reason.

Sure, I could go on and on about how buying a film camera is one of the a things I think you should do sometime to do while you're alive. Or say that I have always aspired while I am alive I would love to write a legal opinion noting that it's not a partial birth abortion if you just kill the fetus before its little head exits the mother's body, but such comments would be tedious and tasteless, respectively, and certainly not worth wasting the time of the good people at Chiat\Day that prominent creative shop,which I've heard of for years and years (with the irony being that for all they have surely taught me about the fine products of others, I still have no clue how to pronounce "Chiat" the first part of the agency's name). Hey! There is still time while I am alive before I go to bed to figure out how to pronounce "Chiat" that gentleman's surname. I think in order to keep things positive, though, I'm going to look at learning the pronunciation as one of my many diverse accomplishments for the day, rather than as part of some grim countdown to death bed.

Don't even get me started about my list of things to do while you're alive. Quite a few of them have something or other to do with you, but not all. So don't get a big head, Live-o!

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is great! You really need to go beyond blogging and try being more widely published. You sound very smart. (little smile thing goes here)

April 26, 2007 9:11 AM  

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