Well well well....is it Thursday already? I will once again cite the "very busy months of May and June" excuse, and say that at least I am making progress on my teacher training and syllabus for UCLA, that I'm doing publicity for my books, and the new tires for my car finally arrived at Costco, and now I have to find time to go over there and get them put on. Yesterday Stephan asked me what I wanted to do for Memorial Day, and I was all "oh thank God-- another day to work!" So, that's pathetic.
Also, in the interest of technology and it being cool, I have been learning all about Wordpress and considering transferring this blog over to that interface. But....then I consider how much it would suck if I transferred four years' worth of blog posts over to another site, and then it crashed. So, for now I'm starting small with a couple of other sites I've been meaning to build.
Here are some updates from the week:
RE: the Red Hot Chili Peppers post from last week. My friend C. sent this set of fictional RHCP lyrics that he created as a tribute. I think you'll find them as wonderfully absurd as I did. I really think this is the direction Anthony Kiedis is going.
RE: Even more book publicity. I did an interview with a great blog called "Stop, Drop, and Read," and they are giving away copies of Hollywood Car Wash, just in case you haven't read it yet and wanted to try to win a copy. Also, if you're interested, you can now hear me talking Search Engine Optimization and my book "Million Dollar Website," over on the Paul McLoughlin at Work show, which is archived here. I am the first guest. Finally, did I mention that I am the career day speaker at my old high school next Friday? That should be fun. If you're wondering, yes--- it is totally weird having two books out at the same time that are about two completely different topics. Weird, and cool.
RE: The Nintendo Wii being totally insensitive to my friend's deceased boyfriend, if you'll refer back to the comments on that post, you'll see that my friend Rachel actually sent a complaint email to Nintendo, and they answered back to say that they were going to tell their development department about this, and that they hoped that person also sent in a complaint letter. Because yeah, I'm sure that providing user-feedback on the Wii interface is really at the top of my friend's list, now that she's been re-reminded about her grief by the mean Nintendo Wii lady. Still, I guess it's nice that they wrote back.
