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Entries from July 2009
July 20, 2009
What? You Don’t Have a Blog?
I have been studying this stuff pretty closely for a few years now and I’ve come to this conclusion:
“It’s all about your blog.”
If you plan to do any business at all on the internet, your blog needs to be your business’s front door. In fact, I’m pretty convinced that almost ANY business needs to blog. [...]
July 17, 2009
The Ketchup Kountry Klub
Before I knew about Don Henderson, I wrote about him in The Affluent Artist. Actually, I wrote about artists who keep day jobs in the arts to pay the bills so they could pursue their own artistic ambitions “off the clock”. Keeping a job to pay the bills, keeping your day job, is a real [...]
July 15, 2009
The Loneliness Factor
Robert Genn, a successful working artist, writes a remarkable “Twice Weekly” newsletter. On Monday morning, his post hit me right between the eyes: “Are You Lonely This Morning?”. Because, as it happened, I was.
Pulling work up from the inside puts you in a place where it is really easy to feel isolated from the rest [...]
July 13, 2009
Unmarried Couples
Yesterday’s news wire said that a gay couple was handcuffed after a kiss on the cheek in:
A. China
B. Saudi Arabia
C. The United States
D. Afghanistan
Click Here: The Answer: C (Hint: I’s almost always C in multiple choice and of course, it was in Salt Lake City)
So todays blog is a little different because [...]
July 10, 2009
Ryan Seslow: Web 2.0 and the Modern Artist
We’ve been talking about Web 2.0 and how creatives can use the new tools of social networking to get the word out about their work and to meet interesting people along the way. One of the principals of the Affluent Artist is the concept of a new Renaissance; an idea that the new tools available [...]
July 8, 2009
Procrastination II
We’ve had a wonderful response to Monday morning’s post on Procrastination and I thought I’d share a few things to do to get out of “Stuck”. I wrote about my “vileness” of putting things off, and, as I discussed in my book, there are some things you can do to get going. As I mentioned, [...]
July 6, 2009
Wait till Tomorrow… Procrastination
My particular version of self loathing and sabotage seems to be procrastination. I’m a pretty high A, high achievement, task oriented kind of guy normally, but I have to keep watching myself for those instances I put stuff aside until it piles so high that all momentum comes to a grinding halt because I have [...]
July 2, 2009
Shecky Hancock, Continental Comedian
I’m taking a few days off for the Fourth, but in honor of Independence Day, I’ve dug up transcripts of a Philadelphia Night Club Comic, Shecky Hancock, doing his act at the Continental Congress Press Club Dinner in 1776. Enjoy it, and remember, these jokes may have been funnier 223 years ago.
Cue the fife and [...]
