By Allen Bacon, Editor, The Daily BoscoIt may just be me, but have you ever noticed that the email you receive during the course of a day closely resembles programming on a television station?
During the morning and through the afternoon I get a lot of emails for business. This is like my CNBC or CNN. My business and news channel. Frequently updated, it's my lifeblood to my business. Deals are finalized, industry newsletters are received, business appointments are made.
In Primetime (after 8 PM) there is a lot of interesting Reality Email happening. Thanks to Facebook all this stuff is ending up on my email. Forget the Osbournes or the Kardashians or Dancing With the Stars. There is a lot of interesting stuff happening on my email.
Bob is up and pacing the floor about his daughter staying out too late on a school night. George is stuck in a Hotel on a business trip in Dallas and misses his wife. Cousin Erik still hates the Redwings. Andy just confirmed he is my friend.
Then there is Late Night. The best thing about late night is my friend Doug Vehle's emails. I call this Late Night With Doug Vehle. This is when Doug likes to write. Doug may be a vampire...I haven't confirmed this yet. Doug's emails are like watching a combination of Charlie Rose and Jimmy Fallon. He sends me these great articles he has written that end up here. He sends me well thought-out responses to my posts. He sends me links to these interesting articles he's seen.
Then after that emails get really weird. After 1 AM it's like a steady stream of infomercials. People are hawking everything from Erectile Dysfunction drugs to something called a Sham-wow to some guy who wants to put a million dollars into my bank account.
I better get back to the emails...another broadcast day is about to begin.
2 comments:
Actually, I only FINISH writing it at night, it does take at least a little time. I saved this until time to go to the gym. I actually wrote it at about. . . .
Oh, heavens, 'Late Night with Doug' used to be on the messageboards, but today I got an example of why I've abandoned those. I got on a company messageboard to ask about their kitcar that's coming out, and two wackos got on and accused me of shilling for the company to promote it.
Hell, it's THEIR board, so what if they DID have someone shill. But it's ridiculous for those fools to assume that I'm shilling for the people hosting the board and go nuts, trashing that company, etc. By what fractured logic they assume that's okay, I can't begin to guess. (Imagine Mark starting to rip into your publishing services.)
So you think the company, Mini-Mania, will ban these fools for the disparging remarks about their company and their products, right? You think they'll thank me for EMailing and warning about what's happening, rignt? Oh, they took the posts down, but the two bad guys are still up there. Guess who they banned. Excuse me, I NEVER get banned, people beg me to post more on their boards. But then I never post at a mixed up place like Mini-Mania. From the look of the political arguments still posted up there and what was said, I'd say there doesn't seem to BE a standard by which anyone is ever banned. I guess I got it because I was the only one NOT being obnoxious and hateful.
So I guess if they're going to act this way I'm probably better off without their Mini Moke kitcar. The one THIS guy below called the 'Mini CHOKE.' (And they didn't even ban him.) Yeah, Allen, you'd have loved reading my responses. I was utterly Jon Stewart about the whole thing. Using up a lot of good material without getting paid. (This comment is getting a bit long without a paycheck, eh?)
Here's his profile, and his EMail, feel free to tell him what a horses ass he is. Back when I WAS the acknowledged most popular person on some half the boards I ever visited, I could provide such a persons' address and he'd get a bunch of EMail asking 'Watts wrong wit' you?' And they'd post the responses. Not that you HAVE to. . . .
(So a few years back this one idiot from the offices of 'Penthouse' magazine was stalking me online because I had acknowledged a distaste for pornography/his magazine/etc., and he actually sent me his office phone for lord only knows what reason beyond proving he really was at 'Penthouse,' and I posted it in a community that had witnessed his doings, and THEY started calling him. Great fun.)
The other guy at MiniMania was even worse, but I don't remember his exact profile name to look him up.
austinmorris@inter-pc.com
http://www.minimania.com/web/threadid/98727/User_Profile_wndw.cfm?GetUser=THE%20MINI%20MOVER&usersiteid=99999
I forgot to mention, some of those messageboards were hosted by companies for industry professionals to visit, and I was indeed PAID to be posting on them. Yeah, by the hosts, to make sure it stayed interesting. NOT to shill their own products because it's unnecessary, they could post that openly if they wanted to.
Sometimes the executives ask me to write something and post in THEIR name, so they can sound smart. Damn, even online, always the ghostwriter.
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