Got a nice plug this week on That Marketing Show, an Internet Podcast all about gardening and home protection. I’m joking. It’s about Marketing. Duh. I may or may not have called most publicists idiots. But I’ve done that on this blog, too. So no worries. Listen here.

Thanks to KS for the info… I suppose they’re "Grants," even though they’re not "money," per se. Either way, nice thing for them to do. Subject: PR Grants for Not-for-Profits CyberAlert, Inc. will again award annual PR Grants to not-for-profit organizations for 2008. In the past four years, CyberAlert has awarded PR grants worth a total of $225,000 to 74 non-profit organizations. The PR Grants consist of one year of media monitoring service at absolutely zero cost. A short PR Grant Application is available online at https://secure.cyberalert.com/grants.html The deadline for applications is December 31, 2007. Grants will be awarded in January. All non-profit organizations in the U.S. and Canada are eligible for the 2008 PR Grants except previous winners. A [...]

RIP Dan Fogelberg, 1951-2007. A variety of musical influences shaped my tastes growing up – two musician parents certainly helped, it’s not every five-year-old who gets to see Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd from the 6th row… But my dad’s love of Jazz, my mom’s love of Broadway, and my rebellion to run out and buy Run DMC’s "Raising Hell" when I was 14 all put me on the path to a surprisingly well-rounded love of music. Dan Fogelberg played a small part in that. I remember finding a copy of his Greatest Hits album on a cassette (A cassete was something like an mp3, except it played in a casette player, or in later years, a Sony Walkman or [...]

An oldie, but a goodie around this time of year. Indiana University’s Acapella Group, Straight, No Chaser, does a very funny rendition of "The 12 Days of Christmas. Thanks to AL’s mom for forwarding it on.

One of the best ways of curing a moderately crappy day (or a moderately crappy few minutes) is to visit "Overheard in New York." If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. One of today’s submissions that made me laugh out loud: Man #1: It seems my first wife put my name down on a job application as a reference. Man #2: Oh, yeah? How do you know? Man #1: Somebody called me yesterday and asked, ‘Can you tell us something about her?’ Man #2: What did you say? Man #1: I said, ‘She can’t cook and she’s lousy in bed! As long as the job don’t require that, I guess she’d be good.’ Man #2: What an [...]