Scroogled – Select AdWords Headlines From My Gmail Inbox

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THE TAX LIEN SHORTCUT

LEARN DUTCH IN 3 EASY STEPS

PUBLISH A BOOK OF POEMS

It’s like a beautiful haiku.

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Scenes From My Morning Commute, 3/13/13 (Belated)

14 March 2013

An speeding ambulance: lights flashing, sirens blaring. Gutter King sightings: 0. The awful voices blaring out of the radio this morning spent what I think it’s fair to classify as way too much time discussing Pope Francis’ lineage, vis a vis his Italian ancestry means that he is, in fact, the dreaded Petrus Romanus, the final [...]

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Portmanteau

20 February 2013

Today is the day that, presumably, Sony announces the PlayStation 4, and it’s expected to be a big, shiny, expensive convergence device that ‘connects your living room to the cloud’ or whatever and, hey, also plays games, though now the games will probably require you to jump around like an idiot in order to play [...]

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Unfollowing

19 February 2013

So. Back, back in the long ago, there were Blockbuster Video stores. And in those stores, you could buy a monthly pass to watch unlimited movies.  There was a Blockbuster less than a mile from my house. I think you see where this is going. During the months I had access to unlimited Blockbuster rentals, [...]

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Some Sort of Pun On the Word ‘Card’

12 February 2013

Recently, the local news reported that we’d be getting a Chik Fil-A franchise locally. I joked about how I’d have to include a note with every purchase directing that my money not be applied to any morally reprehensible causes. It’s a glib way to prod at a hard truth: the things we enjoy (delicious chicken, [...]

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A Pithy Pun About Mining and Nonrenewable Resources

21 January 2013

Did you know that there’s a show on SyFy called Ghost Mine? The premise: a crew of miners opens up a long-shuttered mine that is reputed to be haunted. A team of ghost hunters documents everything while the audience pretends not to realize how ridiculous and probably fake this whole thing is. As long as people [...]

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I’ve Never Seen A Turtle…

16 January 2013

Somehow, I ended up on a mailing list for ARCs. And I’m incredibly grateful for that, but it also makes me feel incredibly guilty. I mentioned just a few days ago that I didn’t read as much as I usually do in 2012 – only 23 books when I’ve been known to do a book [...]

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Confirmation Bias

14 January 2013

When a work of art includes a problematic subject or theme, there are always going to some segment of the audience that believes that confronting that subject is the same as condoning it. It is NEVER X to Y about Z, after all. The use of torture in Zero Dark Thirty, for instance, just glorifies torture, [...]

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Oh Gee, Read More

11 January 2013

At the outset of 2012, I resolved to read 50 new books and see 50 new movies. I kept track of the effort on Pinterest and, while I managed to watch 70 new films last year, I only managed to read 23 new books. I still have a bit of a TBR pile to slog [...]

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Frequency

10 January 2013

I work primarily in email marketing these days. When a customer who is new to email sees the kind of engagement and return that a well-executed, targeted email campaign can generate, there are usually two pernicious impulses birthed within them:  Send email to more people Send email more often As foolproof a plan as that [...]

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