Up over at Dodgeblogium. Number #251 for those keeping count.
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Welcome to the 250th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities. I bet most of you never thought this edition would ever see the light of day. You were very nearly right. 40 editions of the Carnival were just about enough for me. I ran out of time, ran of out of steam and decided to let the Carny pass into the fog of history.
But you can’t keep a good thing down and people love tradition. People apparently didn’t notice the carnival was no longer making its weekly appearance. Entries kept coming into my mailbox, week after week. The 249th edition of Carnival of the Vanities appeared in this space in June, I think. The latest entry I have is from August 27th. Hopeful creatures, those CoTV supporters. They persist in even the most trying circumstances. Like Herpes.
I have something like 80 entries waiting for the Carnival to return, vying for one more moment in the carny spotlight. I doubt I’ll get around to including all of them here and I certainly won’t get to read them all but I might just surprise you.
Okay, probably not.
No matter what, however, this is likely the last Carnival of the Vanities from the staff here at Silflay Hraka. Bigwig pushed his baby out of the nest years ago and Uncle Kehaar welcomed it back out of a sense of nostalgia, duty and tradition. Uncle Kehaar never did like to let go. But he’s learning.
On to the entries.
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The latest entry received is from J Random American. J Random American presents a few New Rules for Golf. Basically he thinks the Nancy in any foursome should be forced to play with a pink ball. I do not like that rule as I would most likely be playing with a pink ball for a majority of any round. Bastiges.
The next most recent entry is also from J Random American. It’s the same entry. Wouldn’t take no for an answer, I guess.
Another hopeful is long-time CoTV favorite Madelaine Begun Kane. Mad sent her latest entry on August 24th. She should know better. She’s actually visited this blog. Anyway, she derides the idea of dressing room butt cameras in No Butt Cams For Me - No Ifs, Ands, Or Buts.
She also submits the following for your delight and enjoyment:
Another regular - and one of my personal favorites - Jon Swift sent in this one from way back on July 2nd: Jonah Goldberg’s Shining. I don’t know who Jonah Goldberg might be but apparently he’s done something bad enough to have lots of biting sarcasm thrown his way.
I didn’t know who David Vitter was before tonight but Jon has sarcasm to spare for him as well, claiming that he’s Another Victim of Gay Marriage.
Reading your stuff was always a highlight of editing the carnival, Jon. Keep it up. You may just find me lurking.
Someone else I admire by way of carnival entries is Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah. The guy just oozes depth and intelligence. I’ll admit that I sometimes had more desire to read his stuff than I had energy to do so, but he was always worth the link. His Silflay Hraka CoTV swan-song? Of No Fixed Abode.
He also sends Anatomy Lessons. Can one have two swan-songs? Huh.
I apologize to those of you who sent me entries but are not going to appear in this space. I am filling it with my favorites and signing off. Sorry.
More favorites.
Mark A. Rayner presents Excruciating Album Cover Art — Heino. Heino is apparently German for “face like my ass”. Scary stuff.
Divided We Stand, United We Fall has no problem with political grid-lock or with Punishing Prevaricating Politicians & Parsing Partisan Perspectives. Fair and balanced. No, really.
Speaking of endings, Adam the Sophistpundit gives An ending ten years in the making. For my money, I was left vaguely dissatisfied with the end of the Harry Potter novels. I don’t think the last novel lived up to the series. Probably just me.
I almost missed this last from Adam. Apparently he has a last name. Who knew? Adam Gurri presents A Moral Perspective on Minimum Wage. I think I liked him better as just “Adam”.
Mark, DWSUWF,Adam; I bid you adieu.
What Carnival of the Vanities would be complete without an entry from CoTV supporter-of-the-year Wayne Hurlbert? Wayne, God bless him, took more than his share of tongue-in-cheek abuse from yours truly but he always bore it with good grace and charm. Wayne, I hate business blogs with a passion. They have overrun this carny and probably rang its death-knell years ago. Most of them present the shallow and obvious as insightful and new.
Sorry for any offense given in this space. It’s nothing personal.
In Wayne’s final appearance in this space, he gives Simple marketing: Ideas you can use everyday. Vaya con dios, amigo.
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Thanks so much to all those who’ve supported Carnival of the Vanities throughout the years, both posters and readers. Bigwig and I both appreciate it. We’d go on if we could.But it’s time to call it a day and bring down the lights on Silflay Hraka’s Carnival of the Vanities. It’s time to pass the torch to those with fresh legs and fresh ideas.
Long-time CoTV supporter Andrew Ian Dodge has offered to step up and revive and revitalize Carnival of the Vanities. The 251st edition of the all-new Carnival of the Vanities can be found next Tuesday, September 18th at Dodgeblogium. If you want to be part of the original and longest-running carnival on the web, submit your material to Andrew via Blog Carnival. Maybe I’ll see you there.
Until the, God bless and good night.
Greetings, todos. Today is not, in fact, my birthday. It was yesterday. That’s why I didn’t do what I prefer to do: put this carnival together the night before it publishes. Instead, I sit here trying to make sure it actually gets out on the web before tomorrow. I know you guys probably don’t believe this but I hate when I don’t get the Carny out on time. I really do. If it were up to me…well, like, more up to me…CoTV would be on this site at 12:01 a.m. every Wednesday morning. It’s just that, even though I’m the editor and it’s my responsibility and I have all the tools and resources available to do that, it’s not really all up to me. Life happens on a way too regular basis.
There’s some logic in there if you look.
Anyway, yesterday was my birthday and it was a good one. That Girl took me out to dinner at South City Kitchen and then she took me for karaoke and dancing at Johnny’s Hideaway. Johnny’s is a rather notorious dive. It’s one of her favorite places but we have to cajole, threaten and bribe any of our friends to go with us. The place is dark and dank and the crowd is geriatric but the music is good and we could care less about any of the rest.
For the record, we sang only duets: “I Got You” and “You and I”. These are old standards in our karaoke book. I have to say we did a lot better than the last time we went to karaoke. It couldn’t have gotten worse.
So, happy birthday to me. I’m 37 and one day old. Wish I could have shared it with you all.*
On with the Carny!
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Going with the karaoke them, GrrlScientist presents Your Cheating Heart … Hank Williams would be so proud.
Tracee Sioux talks about Second Generation Mean Girl. Lindsay Lohan would be so proud.
Jeremiah Lewis gives us How To Kill Your Long Distance Relationship in 7 easy steps. For the record, you can kill a close distance relationship in the same ways. Just in case you were curious.
Madeleine Begun Kane says The GOP’s In For A Rudy Awakening. I’m not too good at reading between the lines but I don’t think Rudy is getting her vote.
Where he comes up with this stuff I’ll never know but Mark A. Rayner found The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Waterloo Edition).
Aspeth instructs us in How To Write Chick Lit In Ten Easy Steps. Once again, reading between the lines here but I don’t think this piece is flattering to chick lit.
bobbarama went to Denny’s. He tell us about it. Steaking out my favorite booth.
CA presents Business life lesson - Don’t let anyone steal your dream
Andrew Ian Dodge relates the 9/11 terrorist attacks and O.J. Simpson’s book in Projections. Think O.J. is responsible for 9/11? I do.
Leon Gettler presents Psychotic organizations: 5 warning signs
Steven Silvers says that perhaps there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians and says that PR is Chief among the reasons for corporate title inflation.
Jack Yoest presents What is the best tactic to get a referral?
Wayne Hurlbert presents Employee relations: Separate sets of rules.
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That’s it for another year and another edition of the Carnival of the Vanities. If I and CoTV are lucky, we’ll both make it another year. Hell, at our relative ages, we’re lucky if we make it another week. I’m pretty sure I’ll be here next week but the Carny has only a 50/50 chance of seeing the light of day next Wednesday. I’m just been invited to karaoke for next Tuesday and I’m on the lake all day next Wednesday.
But I’ll try my best.
If you want to be part of the maybe, possibly Carnival of the Vanities, please submit your posts through Blog Carnival.
Until then, enjoy your Carnival of the Vanities.
* Not really all of you. I mean, those of you I know and love, certainly. But not the rest of you. Probably.
Greetings from Carnival of the Vanities. This week’s edition marks the 246th issue of the longest running carnival on the web. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Somebody should make that into a song.
Anyway, this week’s carny is going to be quick and dirty. As always, I have little enough time to devote to blogging. What with work and life, blogging tends to be a fairly low priority on the totem pole. It’s not that I don’t want to write or blog, I just find myself wanting to do so many other things.
This past weekend, for example, was dinner out with That Girl on Friday night, white-water rafting on the Ocoee, line dancing (well, standing in a line anyway) at some place called Wild Bill’s with several folks, church and a cookout by the pool with my church group on Sunday night. Monday night was exercise night and last night was dinner and a movie night, again with That Girl. Tonight is Red Soxs versus Braves at Turner Field and I have no idea what’s going on tomorrow night. Something, I’m sure. Probably not blogging.
But maybe. We’ll see.
On to the carnival.
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The Best
John Wesley breaks Einstein’s rule and reveals The Secret to Creativity.
Madeleine Begun Kane gains Victory In Her Battle Against Feed Scraping Content Thief 4Comedy.com. Apparently she forced the site into one of those parked domain template modes. Good on ya’, Mad.
DWSUWF gives us GWB determined to honor campaign promise and unite the country. W surely is taking a unique approach to uniting the country. Glad to see so many people coming over to my long-held view about W.
Jack Yoest honors his father and a fallen sailor in USS Bonefish Lost: A Remembrance 18 June.
Adam examines economic principles of price setting in The Right Price
The Rest
Mama Duck presents Food ideas for a Luau Party
Leon Gettler presents Seven questions for creating an ethical culture
Silicon Valley Blogger presents 8 Different Ways To Diversify And Manage Risk
CA presents Business life lesson - Business is a team sport
The Skilled Investor presents 18 Low Cost S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds
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That’s all for this week. Come back next week for the 247th edition of Carnival of the Vanities. We’re getting old and long in the tooth around here. If you’d like to be part of the next Carnival, take the time to write something people might want to read and submit it to Blog Carnival.
Until then, I’ll be doing something else.
Okay, go ahead and say it. I know, I’m a few weeks late with this particular episode of the Carnival of the Vanities. I am happy to announce that a.) I’m back in action and b.) even though I haven’t put up an edition of CoTV in three weeks, the hard core of carny regulars are still submitting material every day. Good for you guys. Because you’ve been so patient with me, I’m putting up everything that’s been missed in the last few weeks. I also can’t promise that this won’t happen again in the future as my schedule becomes even more hectic and my energy level declines exponentially.
Where’ve I been, you ask? (Or maybe you don’t ask. I’m telling anyway.) Well, I spent five days in Hilton Head around Memorial Day weekend. One of my roommates for that particular vacation happened to be carrying a bacterial infection that had morphed into conjunctivitis. That’s highly contagious “pink eye” to those out there keeping score. Three folks on the trip came down with the contagion, including myself. I am just now finishing off the last effects of the disease.
That’s no excuse, of course. Being sick only gives you more time to blog. It just leaves you with less energy to do so. So I didn’t.
But I’m back and we can put all that behind us. Patch things up and try one more time, right?
Right.
Now on with the show!
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GrrlScientist presents The Agonized Deaths of Dinosaurs Captured in Stone.
Leon Gettler presents 10 rules for corporate social responsibility.
Jack Yoest presents Lurita Alexis Doan: Good Management Meets Bad Politics.
Madeleine Begun Kane presents GOP Piety Song Parody (Sing to Billy Joel’s Honesty).
Adam presents Free Internet.
Kennubo presents Ken Nubo — my rant to the world: A word of advice to would-be teachers.
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Captured By CAPTCHA.
Leon Gettler presents Six rules to avoid PR disasters.
Mama Duck presents Messy party ideas - part 3.
Jack Yoest presents Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery.
Adam Graham presents On Paying Your Dues.
Aparna presents Excessive perspiration in the feet: Home Remedies.
GrrlScientist presents Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Why Are So Many College Students Experiencing Emotional Crises?
Leon Gettler presents China’s high-speed economy: will there be a car crash?
Andrew Ian Dodge presents Death or Life, now there is a question…
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah presents A Plagiarism in Plaid.
Brandon Peele presents Psychology vs. Philosophy.
Wayne Hurlbert presents Marketing gimmicks: Bending spoons and magic.
GrrlScientist presents Forty Signs of Rain.
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And that’s it for three works worth of posts. I promise to be here again next week to have a little continuity in the Carnival.
Probably.
If you want to be part of the probable carnival, please send your material in through Blog Carnival.
Until then, hasta la vista!
One more 8 hour work day and it’s time for vacation. I can make it.
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Okay, work is done. Time go to on vacation. Your carnival is below!
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Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah presents On George W. Bush
Leon Gettler presents Crying Wolfowitz: What now for the World Bank?
Brandon Peele presents An Open Letter to My Parents
Madeleine Begun Kane presents No Sweat Divorce
Barry Welford presents The Keyless Cell phone
Riversider presents Spring Days on the Riverbank
GrrlScientist presents The Return of the Rimatara Lory
Wayne Hurlbert presents An abundant world: Unlimited opportunities
Madeleine Begun Kane presents If This Is True, My Head May Explode
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More next week! Submit your stuff through Blog Carnival.
Back next Tuesday!
It’s 10:30 on a Thursday night and I’m just getting home but, dedicated soul that I am, here I sit to present another edition of Carnival of the Vanities. I’m going to try to be brief this evening as I have given myself an eleven o’clock bedtime and I expect a call from a friend in San Francisco any minute now. I suspect that either I won’t get to bed at eleven or that the carny won’t get finished or both.
In the interest of time, something of which I never seem to have enough, let’s get started.
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Okay, I just got off the phone, it’s 10:57 and I will be in bed in ten minutes. I’ve abandoned any thought of editing the carnival this week. From here on out, it’s just the entries I’ve received. Enjoy!
DWSUWF presents Live blogging the live bloggers (Republican Debate)
Patricia presents Make the Most of Every Moment: Lessons from the Terminal Illness That Wasn’t
Leon Gettler presents Buffett defends corporates at “Woodstock for capitalists”
Wayne Hurlbert presents Sunk costs: Know when to pull the plug
Jack Yoest presents Is the Manager Obsolete? Or When Does Consensus Stop?
Mama Duck presents A Mother’s Day card for Grandma…
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Bandwidth Blues
DWSUWF presents End Game: The face of “Victory in Iraq”
GrrlScientist presents New Hummingbird Species Discovered
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That’s all folks! If you want to have a post in the Carnival of the Vanities, you can submit your post through Blog Carnival. G’night and see you next week.
I know it was due yesterday. I haven’t had time to deal with it. I might be able to get to it tonight.
Maybe.
Behold the power of Kehaar. I make a passing remark about Bigwig not posting to this blog very often and then link to one or two of his past posts and he’s been on some kind of super-blogging high ever since. The dam has burst and the blog posts flow forth.
He’ll probably stop again now that I’ve mentioned it. Behold the power of Kehaar.
Don’t make me come after you next.
And just to reiterate the only other blog posting I’ve made this week: Spiderman 3 sucks donkey balls.
On with the Carnival!
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We’ll start this week with Good Friend of Hraka (GFOH) CGHill. CGHill thinks little of the power of Kehaar but does admire the power of a little metal strip. I have to say that the first thing I look for on a woman these days…well, the second thing I…the thir…the fourth fifth thing I look for on a woman these days is the wedding ring. I have been guilty of treating her differently than I would if she weren’t wearing it. I also treat women differently after I see them smoking. One is out of respect, the other from fading interest.
Andrew Ian Dodge gives his thoughts on Wikipedia in Wiki thoughts. I know that there are problems with it, but there are days when I just go and surf and read articles about stuff that interests me. Is good.
Madeleine Begun Kane is Keeping Abreast Of Bras. Mmmmmm. Booooobies.
Wayne Hurlbert presents Solving business problems: Seeking patterns.
GrrlScientist gives us a really interesting article on the Song and Plumage Evolution in New World Orioles. Evidently bird song is much closer than expected and plumage much less similar in closely related species. At least, that’s what I think the article says. Go read it if you want.
Leon Gettler talks about the problems of stealth homosexuality in corporate America in Lord Browne and the “pink plateau”.
Adam gives us The future of film. I’ve thought about this before. I think I’m going to start my own online production company. I’m serious this time though. Really.
Lastly, Riversider presents Another Preston Is Possible: Mayday, Preston Flagmarket 2007.
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And that’s all folks. You want more of this? Send me your posts via Blog Carnival by next Tuesday evening. This Carny appears in this space on Wednesdays. Next week is world-record-setting Carnival of the Vanities #243.
Until then, read more of Bigwig’s stuff.
Welcome to Silflay Hraka, where we’re all Carnival of the Vanities, all the time! Yes, that seems to be all the blogging I and brother Bigwig have time for these days, much to our mother’s chagrin. This blog is also one of the best ways of keeping friends and family up to date on our lives because we’re not terribly good at phone calling, emailing, etc. We’re busy, busy, selfish people. Sorry, ma, and all other loyal readers of this particular bloggy blog.
Too bad I have nothing new to offer my mother in the way of life-updating. Work is busy, life is busy, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Tonight is my one free night this week. Yesterday was a planning meeting with a group of pals with whom I’ll be traveling in a few weeks. Tomorrow is a planning meeting with my church group co-leaders. Thursday is Bible study group, Friday is movie night, Saturday is some concert or other, Sunday is church group meeting and Monday starts it all over again. Tonight, I blog.
On with the Carny!
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We’ll start with Andrew Ian Dodge. Andrew defends Commercialism in the blogosphere. He finds no problem with profiting from a blog and neither do I…as long as it doesn’t cause you to self-edit or skew opinions to support advertisers or those who pay you to write. If you’re partisan simply because someone is paying you to be so…well, you destroy trust in the medium. Of course, trust in the blogging medium has probably already been destroyed and actually probably should be destroyed. You shouldn’t believe something just because you read it on the internet. If you base all your beliefs on things you read in blogs, you should probably seek some other form of information.
Maybe this is how traditional news sources will survive. As the market for news segments, traditional media will retake the moral high-ground from bloggers as bloggers become less trustworthy and become tainted by the stain of paid-for opinions.
Curiously enough, I think everyone who submits to this Carnival is doing so with an eye on eventual wealth. Good luck with that, all.
Paul Sunstone doesn’t say we should profiteer from blogging but he does claim that it’s Your Moral Duty To Blog In the Nude. I am not currently blogging nude but I have done so in the past. Tonight, it’s boxers and little else. There’s a pretty picture for ya.
Wayne Hurlbert re-presents Disaster prevention: Learning to bike ride. He missed last week’s Carnival by submitting this particular article at 5:04 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Note to Wayne and everyone else: I write up this post on Tuesday night. I don’t typically check the CoTV email account except for that evening. If it ain’t in on Tuesday night, it waits a week.
I’m just sayin’.
David thinks Payless might be guilty of trademark infringement. Payless and American Eagle Outfitters Soon In Court. For my money, I immediately thought Payless and AEO had formed some kind of partnership or were owned by the same folks. Could spell trouble for Payless.
GrrlScientist asks a question that’s on all our minds: What is “Disturbing”? Some of you will find it disturbing that I’m blogging in my boxers. I do fear an over-reaction against “disturbing” writing after the recent Virginia Tech shootings. There are probably things that have been written on this blog in the past that could be considered “disturbing”. Ever read any of Bigwig’s conversations with Zod? ‘Nuff said.
Speaking of someone who talks to the voices in their head, Madeleine Begun Kane sings us a song in Serenade For The First Sufferers (Political Song Parody). Methinks she has a point.
Jack Yoest thinks the world needs another partisan news site in The Majority Accountability Project: New (Im)Media and The Long Tail of Journalism. Didn’t somebody already do this? I’m sure someone has. Speaking as someone who works in the world of ad agencies and ad serving, 5000 page views a day is going to be a very hard sell. But it could happen.
Lastly, Adam Graham says we should support John Cox for President and says that Integrity is a forgotten word in Washington D.C. John Cox just might get my vote. I hate all my other choices thus far.
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And that’s another week of Carnival of the Vanities gone by. While searching for Bigwig’s conversation with Zod, I came across some older Carnival editions. I thought it’d be interesting to share what they used to look like. Take a look at the ninth edition. I think we’ve fallen far.
But the Carny goes on. CoTV may limp and lag along, but it does keep going. Number 242 will be right here in this space next week. If you don’t believe it, come back and see for yourself. If you’d like to get in on the action, please send your post to Carnival the Vanities, c/o Blog Carnival.
Until then, I’ve got stuff to do. Have a good week. Ma, I’ll call soon!