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Here’s wishing all of you a peaceful, joyful and blessed 2007. Thanks for all your support and encouragement over the past year.

~m

UPDATE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 13: Brandon and I visited a new preschool this morning and I haven’t been this excited in quite some time. It’s simply perfect. It’s a Reggio-Emilia based parent co-op right in the heart of Berkeley. Will keep you posted on how it goes.

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I’ve had occasion to think a lot lately about education. It’s certainly not the first time that subject has been on my mind - …

With 20 minutes notice, YVOD produced a banner ad for a client. Her response? Thank you for saving my a$$ … again! I thought that was pretty cool.

UPDATE: Brandon and I now have a new home. Thanks to all for your well wishes! ~m

Sometimes our clients get a little impatient with the website process. This may be because they have hired “putter-uppers” to create websites for them in the past and “putting up” is a very quick process.

What’s a putter-upper? This is a phrase that Gerry McGovern uses and I think is very appropriate. It describes webmonkeys who take the content their clients give them and simply throw it onto a website …

Ingredients:
2 flash-frozen boneless skinless breasts
1 lemon
1 orange
2 avocados
half a cup or so of good balsamic vinegar
honey
potatoes
garlic
lemon pepper
coarse sea salt

Season chicken with lemon juice, salt and lemon pepper. Broil.
Boil potatoes.
Mash potatoes with a stick of butter, a couple bulbs of roasted garlic and some sea salt.
Mash avocadoes and stir in balsamic vinegar, juice of the orange, salt and a spoonful of honey. Pour avocado sauce over chicken.

That’s it! Dinner in 15 …

Not a breath of wind - everything is completely still. It is always quiet here but now it is just silent. Fireflies offer a small, sedate light show. The moon’s reflection dances gently in the ocean.

The first thing you hear is the waves hitting the beach. Normally the reef catches all the waves and you don’t hear anything from the ocean at all. Then all of a sudden swooosh… …

http://www.evolutionofdance.com/

#1 viewed video on YouTube
#2 top rated video on YouTube
appearing on the today show next week

Why? Because it’s FUNNY! It’s oddball, goofy, easy to understand funny. It’s low production values, it’s one funny-looking white dude unselfconsciously doing goofy dances to greatest hits for no damn good reason, it’s frickin funny. At the end of the video: replay - or send to a friend. Viral.

This is what successful viral campaigns …

… or sometimes, only one. How am I connected to Delores Huerta, Barry Manilow and Colin Powell? My mom has met all three. Here she is at a recent AARP event with her ole buddy Colin. That’s my hoochie-mama sister on the left.

My mom made the mistake of using the “email to a pal” feature from aarp.org’s website to send me an article about whether organic food is worth the price premium, etc.

Here’s the article she sent me:
Some nice but misguided lady talking about whether elderly people should cough up the extra buck or two to buy food that doesn’t kill us and our planet

And here’s my admittedly lengthy reply:

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