Guilty Musical Pleasures

Ok, time to ‘fess up. What are your guilty musical pleasures? You know, the music you know you shouldn’t like, but you just can’t help yourself. Don’t get all shy on me now. Just to get things rolling, I’ll share some of mine:

  • A-Ha – the CD with “Take on Me” is actually pure pop bliss. I liked it even then, but couldn’t tell my friends. Now I am not ashamed. Well, only a little bit anyway…
  • The stylin’ rhymes of Mr. Will Smith – I know, he’s got no street cred. He’s just perpetuating “minstrel” show stereotypes. Spike Lee doesn’t like him. But I just love his harmless positive “rap lite.”

See? That wasn’t too bad. Help me out here. Click on “Comments” and away we go.

In other news, no anti-Bloggie™ either. Seems like Consolation Champs is living up to its reputation. I’m going home to bite my pillow…

Blogger Demise Post-Mortem

Matt Haughey’s post-mortem, magnanimous and hopeful. And Jack’s, especially insightful and a little bit angry. I noticed too that it’s interesting that we’re all using Blogger to document the demise of the company that made it. Meg’s is just heartbreakingly sad.

I’m going to make a special point at SXSW this year of trying to track down each of the ex-Pyrates so I can thank them personally.

Bloggers’ Birthday Page

Thanks to Firda, who informed me that there is already a birthdays page for bloggers, here. Not sure what to do. I’d like to do one that links to people’s wishlists, and is just a straightforward calendar type thing, with no astrological theme. What do you guys think?

All-Around Bad Day

Just an all-around bad day today. Our little company was supposed to be moving into funky new office space this month. We’ve been wrangling back and forth for weeks over the offer to lease. The offer was accepted, and yesterday my boss met with the building owner. He said it went very well, and then today we found out the deal has fallen through. No reason given. And the company we sublet from now needs the space immediately. It could be working from home for a while for us, or worse, not working at all for me. Who knows? Part of the reason the deal could have fallen through is that we may be guilty by association with the rest of the “high tech” and “dot com” companies, even though our company is technically a business services company. We’re more like Kinko’s than Cisco.