No kidding. I’m working at home today and the home phone just rang and it was Tay Zonday, the Chocolate Rain guy, whose voice totally sounds exactly like it does on that video. He goes, “This is Tay Zonday. You think I’m a one-hit wonder with some kind of gland problem, and I think you’re a demented hack who needs to get his nuts cut out. Could you spare a few minutes to talk to me?” Tay went on to say that he was a big fan of Fake Steve and wanted to offer some advice about how to manage my career, but he would only do it off the record. I said fine, what the hell. Now I can’t tell you what Tay said but I can tell you that nothing I heard on this call in any way contradicted the advice given to me by others who have said that since Steve insists he isn’t sick that I should just go back to kicking him in the nuts satirizing him. Also, a person with intimate knowledge of Tay Zonday’s career has pointed out to me that Tay’s advice could be invaluable since Tay has managed to get on Carson Daly, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s...
Learn More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYY3IUdNM8U&hl=en&fs=1] Yeah, I know. These videos suck. And yet the doofballs keep making them. And other doofballs keep watching them. Just doesn’t seem fair to me that Fake Steve shuts down, while the blendertards just keep booming, along with icanhascheezburger and Perez Hilton. Groan. Don’t get me...
Learn MoreJust did a quick videocam intereview with a guy named Justin who has a show called TalkingheadTV and he was asking me which iPhone apps I like best. Um, well, uh, I had to admit that I’d only tried a few. Flashlight (stupid but it’s only a buck and possibly useful someday); Facebook, AIM, Tetris, WeatherBug, VoiceRecord. And that was it. Justin turned me on to Jott, SpeechCloud and SpeedDial. But this made me wonder. What are the best ones? Which ones should I check out? Which are the must-haves? Any and all recommendations...
Learn More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxp4FuezU1I&hl=en&fs=1] Portfolio magazine is to the media world what Sam Palmisano is to technology — you know they’re still out there, somewhere, if only because you’re pretty sure that if they’d gone out of business you’d have read something about it, yet you never seem to see Portfolio anywhere or hear about anything they’ve said or done lately. They’ve been publishing for a year and a half and the only buzz they’ve generated has to do with the huge turnover in their editorial staff, where hacks keep bailing because of the poisonous atmosphere. Now it appears Portfolio.com is resorting to Onion-style satire, as with the above video where they interview Donald Trump’s developmentally disabled hellspawn and use it in a segment called “Moments of Brilliance.” Man, the power of the Conde Nast brand really draws the A-list business celebrities, doesn’t it? Who’s next to share a “moment of brilliance”? Ed Zander? MC Hammer? Yeah. Great job cracking that lucrative business magazine space, Conde Nast. You cats are on fire. No seriously. I mean...
Learn MoreWoz apparently got himself into the front row at a taping of “Price is Right.” Sad stuff. Much love to William for passing along a link to the original version on...
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