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11/23/12

What Happens in Vegas: NMX Conference

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve been invited to speak on a panel at the upcoming New Media Expo (NMX) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6-8, 2013, about song blogging. NMX is “the World’s Largest Conference & Trade Show for Bloggers, Podcasters, Web TV & Video Series Creators.” This of course means that it is also known for being the largest gathering of sexy people anywhere in the world.

Passes to the conference are still available and if you’re in the area you should come through. There’s a ton to do, I hear. We could make a blood pact and then wake up the next morning having lost our best friend who is scheduled to be married in a matter of hours. Or maybe we could rob a high security vault at the Bellagio, stare at her fountains, and then walk discreetly into the night. Or, even better, we could gamble away our life savings and be forced to offer, in satisfaction of the debt, my wife to an aging billionaire. Too many great choices! It’ll be a blast regardless. Hope to see you there!

11/6/12

Done and Done

What a great American tradition. Love it. And, don’t think I wasn’t profiled and intimidated!

Check back for more election coverage tonight. I hope to be bringing you all the breaking news from in front of an enormous digital 3-D American Flag and bald eagle. And yes I only have one outfit. But, what’s more patriotic than a Washington Nationals flat bill?! I mean surely Francis Scott Key was rocking a three-cornered version when he penned the anthem right?

10/26/12

Oh No They Didn’t

Don’t think I won’t blong slap the people who did this to me and my South Carolina confederates.

There are only like 4.7 million of us. So, they essentially have ALL our SSNs. I’m seriously stunned.

If anyone tries to pass themselves off as theipoetlaureate, make him freestyle the preamble to the Constitution. If he can’t get past, “We the people . . .,” then shoot him on sight.

Gosh dangit. I knew I shouldn’t have paid my taxes.

Oh, it’s on.

09/16/12

The Dog Ate My Homework

No song. Spent 5 hours in the ER with my son, who broke his arm last night. He snapped the radius and ulna clean. For the second time. He can’t seem to break it without making some elaborate consonant out of his forearm. Last night was something like a “v.” We’ve done the “w” too. Or maybe it was an “s.” Anyway, he was furious about this picture. I made him smile. He said, “Everyone will think I was having a great time in the hospital.” Um, I’m pretty sure that Sunday Night Football and your own personal morphine drip nearly always constitutes a “great time.”

08/30/12

The Reviews Are In . . .

Some of my biggest fans are spam. These trolling algorithmically generated comments really know how to make a man feel good. It’s indecipherable flattery like the following that gives me the strength and inspiration to daily press on.

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- Touch Phone

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Getting people out of their comfort zone:

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- Hier Klicken

Still huge with Third Reich stenographers, apparently. This comment has been amazed me, too.

Appealing to mens’ interests:

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- SEO Software

You know you’re made when there exists polling data on your popularity among various demographics that even a software can locate. Wait. Why only most guys?

For some, I’m persistence paid off:

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- Beginners Guide to Forex Training

Manuals love me. They tend to know exactly what’s worth enough for them. And what’s not. They also remember what the internet was like than ever before.

For others, I’m a role model and resource:

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- Official Jordy Nelson Jersey

I can’t believe the jersey of one of the guys on my fantasy football team is a regular here. Not to mention, a burgeoning web developer, apparently. (Nice work, jersey of Jordy Nelson!.)

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Wait, I think that was just a neighbor. Regardless, it’s the highest sort of compliment to be credited with someone’s very existence inside a website and to finally be acknowledged as having valuable tricks. #Humbled.

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- Fake Rolex Watches

Stop it! You make me blush. Of course, I’ll look forward to drop you a mail, you silly Fake Rolex Watches, you!

07/15/12

Half-Life

Please check back. I have a weekly round up loosely based on the suspicious almost-discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle presently under construction.

03/29/12

BREAKTHROUGH

That’s the theme of tomorrow’s TEDxGreenville. It might also be what I do to this picture frame window to my right if this week doesn’t end soon.

I present third, in the first afternoon session, immediately after lunch.

I have between 8-10 minutes to perform a song, explain the entire evolutionary history of recorded music, describe song blogging, write and record an entire song on stage, and then publish it to this site. I have calculated, therefore, that I’ll have between 3 and 4 seconds to actually be worried about it all. But, that’s still plenty of time to puke right?

The event is sold out but there are still other great ways to participate. There is a smartphone application available here. And, the event can be livestreamed at TEDxGreenville.org on the day of the event.

If nothing else, check back here around 2:00 pm to hear what we created from stage.

This has been nearly 6 months in the making. I’m so blessed for the opportunity.

02/20/12

Year of the Rabbit Continued and a Happy President’s Day

I’m embarrassed with all this self-promotion. No I’m not. Well, sort of.

Nope.

Not at all.

It’s just been a good week or so. I can’t help it. First, the TEDx announcement and now this.

Sphere of Hip Hop has named me Emcee of the Year, mostly on the strength of The Prince with a Thousand Enemies album but also, in part, for my work here. The field included my rap hero; the best rapper I know personally; a West Coast legend; and a guy that morphed his face with a lion on his album cover. I feel pretty fortunate. I double checked that it wasn’t a typo. I thought maybe they meant to give me just “Small Animal Hutch Rapper of the Year.” Nope. Best in class.

I’m really humbled by it. The record felt like a risk and took too many years of my life to complete. I’m so thankful for the modest acclaim it received.

Here is the press junket’s official President’s Day Anthem, first published last year. Not as any political statement, but let us always be thankful that the greatest nation in the world, is so, in part, because it has the least powerful king.

Performed by ipoetlaureate.  Music produced by nomold.

The Least Powerful King