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October 2009

Having it all, getting it all, and smart brand marketing

admin - October 29, 2009

Lately I’ve been feeling a lot like a consumer brand that’s conflicted over how to focus the messaging priorities of an integrated media campaign to best match their overall business objectives.   Anchor into one idea and laser focus everything you do around that direction? Establish several different objectives and go into market hoping to just hit one?  Screw it all, and just go celebrity?  Much of …

All the answers, for one low price.

admin - October 28, 2009

I received the following email from the O&O Meg of Blackberries to Apples sometime on Sunday afternoon. ——————————————- So, here’s a question. Why do women spend so much time and money trying to dissect the dating world, all the while this convenient Date Ball was hiding at my local Harlem dollar store?!?! Allegedly it will tell me when he will call, if he likes me, …

20-Nothing Observations from Chicago

admin - October 27, 2009

…and technically South Bend, Indiana. The girls and I made our third, and lets-be-honest-not-at-all-final trek to South Bend, Indiana this weekend for the annual Holy Wars – the “football game” in which B.C. plays “rivals” Notre Dame.  I say “football game” because this time neither team played it as if it was one and “rivals” because it’s a non-division game that couldn’t mean less to …

Pumpkin Part II: sometimes you stay with someone for reasons that have nothing to do with them

admin - October 22, 2009

The follow-up from Monday’s story about Pumpkin and her less than ideal man, maybe. It may have been serendipitous that I named Pumpkin as such – a complicated fruit (vegetable?) to go with a very complicated woman. After assuring Pumpkin that no one would ever be able to figure out her true identity, we sat down to talk more about this “situation” she has gotten …

Relationship detective: a “well then why are they dating…” story, in two parts

admin - October 19, 2009

Tendencies toward over-evaluation of relationship issues runs in the family, apparently.  The below is the first contribution from my first little sister, Dani.  It’s part one of a two-part story about a relationship with a million and one parts.  Part one: what’s going on slash what one girl thinks is going on.  Part two – to come Friday – why it’s going on slash what’s …

Romance in a time of technology

admin - October 16, 2009

Other Jesse Rosen sent me a text on Monday afternoon: OJR: Time to write a 20 about couples on their black berries at the same time.  Gross. Translation: You should write a 20-Nothings blog post about couples who play with their blackberries in tandem while on a date. Explanation: There is a guy out there with my same name.  We went to middle and high …

Sometimes it’s best to just keep hooking up with your ex.

admin - October 14, 2009

I’ve started encouraging friends to keep hooking up with their exes.  Like when a friend comes to me and says, “ugh it’s such a disaster, and I don’t know what I want, but we just keep hooking up…”  I say, “I think you should just keep doing it then.” It’s a sharp right turn from my previous position that the only way to effectively break …

Are people still speed dating?

admin - October 13, 2009

Yes – well – at least tall people are – or people who claim to be tall people… Thanks and wow, you’re brave go out to Bridget for the below story contribution from which we learn that people are generally judgmental liars. Thanks for doing that leg work for us B. Jessie –  Following my maiden speed dating voyage, I have a new-found respect for your participation …

Understanding what they preach: Perspective

admin - October 12, 2009

The second in what is now technically a series – “understanding what they preach.”   Per the first installation around “integrity” – older people are always offering Hallmark card advice that’s unfortunately void of a “how to” appendix.  Here we unpack those stock phrases with the help of dictionary.com and, sometimes, Jesuit priests. Today: “perspective” “What you need is a little perspective around this issue …

The Oldie But’a Series: Red Cup Green Cup

admin - October 9, 2009

Some old posts are so apropos to some new posts that it’s worth re-posting them for editorial effect.  Also if it’s possible to be jet-lagged five days after getting back from the west coast, I am.  Today – a post from yore that offers a non-tech solution to common dating issues. From 2/8/08 RED CUP,  GREEN CUP “I wish life were like a red cup, green cup …