Damn, hadn’t done of these in a while. Here we go!

  • I’m writing a three-parter (1, 2) over at my Vox Blog Nascent on the whole personal ad game. And really, it is a game. Thing is…who’s winning?

  • You know, there’s a lot of hate on the Internet against Gamestop and EB Games about pre-orders and the like, but you know, I’ve had pretty good experiences with the ones here in Atlanta. The folks down at the Lenox Square Gamespot are A-OK in my book and have never been stingy with pre-orders (or any gifts that may come with said pre-orders), and the EB Games in Edgewood Shopping Center is pretty laid-back and cool too. I’ve only had to lose my shit on one Gamestop employee, but that was at my last time New York City and that bitch deserved it. I even got applause afterwards!

  • I think I’m about ready to jump ship from Cingular. I doubt I’ll be waiting around for the iPhone, and I really want the ability to switch phones when I damn well feel like it as opposed to waiting two years. Verizon looks like a decent competitor, but I’m sure they have that same locked-in-phone-to-contract deal…or do they? A little birdie told me that Verizon doesn’t lock any of their phones. Verizon users, help me out here. At this rate, I’d even go back to MetroPCS.

  • In the midst of this whole job applying thing, I really get some weirdly phrased replies. Half the time, I can’t tell if they’re real or spam. Take this one for example:

    We have reviewed your resume and we feel we may have an interest in scheduling you for an interview. Please answer a few questions on the following pages that will hopefully assist us in determining if a pre-preliminary match exists between your career objectives and our corporate goals.

    Pre-preliminary match? Yeah, I can’t tell.

  • Right now, people are fuming over Don Imus’ sexist/racially-charged remarks against the Rutgers women’s basketball team (he refers to them on-air as “nappy-headed hoes”) and Imus gives a half-assed apology. Jesse fumes, Al fumes, Black folks pontificate, White folks speculate, and two weeks later (probably after Imus’ suspension), all goes quiet until some other non-Black celebrity lets something profane and offensive “slip out” or get “taken out of context” about the Black race. Or a man lets something neandarthal slip about how he feels about women. The real question is, how many times is this going to keep happening before the mainstream media sees the same cycle and issues a zero-tolerance attitude about these things? I can answer that: probably never, so long as they lose viewers and readers to the Internet.

  • Anyone ATL readers up for seeing Grindhouse tomorrow at Phipps Plaza? I’m picking up Super Paper Mario tomorrow and will be in the area.

  • Jaiku, iStalkr, Twitter, Joost, Virb, Ziki…I’m awash in a sea of YASP-esque “Web 2.0″ services. Help!

  • If you haven’t had a chance to check out and/or join the Black Weblog Awards Google Group, please do (especially if you’re interested in what’s going to be different in this year’s Awards).

  • I’m going to go ahead and answer the questions from this post on my next podcast (which I anticipate will be this week sometime). I was holding out for #50, but I didn’t get in any more questions, and I figure I need to actually do #49 before doing #50. Cardinal order’s funny like that.

[tags]asides, super paper mario, grindhouse, don imus, black weblog awards, gamestop, eb games, cingular, verizon, metropcs[/tags]