Archive for the ‘Readership Capture’ Category
Take a look at me now
Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday’s Balloon-Juice meet-up. Here’s some pics (that’s me in the back in first one with the trapper hat, as promised). That was a lot of fun, we should do another one soon. Thanks especially to the people who emailed me to thank me for setting it up, especially the [...]
February 13, 2012
· 
DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
52 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger
Okay, so we’re on for McGee’s tomorrow at 3 pm. I’ll wear my trapper hat so as to look recognizable. Hopefully, others will have balloons, stuffed cats, etc. to make us recognizable.
February 11, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 30 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Sunday get together
I called McGee’s and they said we should be fine near the bar on the first floor if we’re about 30 people or so. I’m a little reluctant to make a formal reservation anywhere since I don’t know how many people will come for sure (and I don’t want to make people RSVP or anything). [...]
February 10, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 41 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Balloon-Juice meet-up: good enough for me
Word ‘round the campfire is that the intended spot for the next BJ get-together may be too crowded, so we’ll try this place instead: McGee (240 West 55 Street Between Broadway and 8th Avenues). I’ll try calling tomorrow to make sure they can get some space for 20-30 people. Hope to see you there, Sunday [...]
February 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 26 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Late night open thread
What’s your favorite song ever about driving? I’ll go with “Nothing But The Wheel” and “Blue Driver” (these are both covers). A little obscure, for me, but I like them. Talk about anything else too. I think we’ll do the Balloon-Juice meet-up Sunday at McGee’s on 55th and 8th.
February 8, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 222 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Open Thread, Readership Capture
The lights are much brighter there: Sunday BJ meet-up at Walker’s Sunday at 3
All right, let’s do it: Walker’s (TriBeca) on Sunday at 3. I’m more of an Upper West Side G, but Walker’s worked so well last time I don’t want to chance it somewhere else. Can someone call and reserve room in the back for 20? I’m not good at that kind of thing. Update. Walker’s [...]
February 8, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 38 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Another BJ get together?
Is anyone in New York up for another Balloon Juice get together next Sunday afternoon? I was thinking the same place—because Walker’s was great I thought—but we could do something else somewhere else (e.g. a different part of town, but Walker’s was pretty subway convenient). Let me know what you think.
February 5, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 51 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Song of the week
From JPK at Can’t Explain (that song came out in 1998, I feel old). Sarah McLachlan, “Angel” (1998) I know Balloon Juice is rife with animal lovers but I’m not really trying to pander here—not really. In fact, I’m a little tired of that long BC SPCA End Animal Cruelty ad that uses this song [...]
January 27, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 90 Comments
Posted in: Music, Readership Capture
Song of the week
From JPK at Can’t Explain: Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Rainy Day, Dream Away” (1968) I wanted to talk about how directly this traces back to Jimi Hendrix’s origins in the Pacific Northwest and the various indoors activities that get us through the long rainy winters. Hendrix grew up in Seattle, leaving for military service when he [...]
January 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 43 Comments
Posted in: Music, Readership Capture
Twenty inch blades on the Impala
Oh, Jonah: Last night in my dozen observations on the debate I wrote: 5. [Romney] also made some sort of reference to coming from the “streets of America.” Romney is a fine man, but if there’s anyone less “street” than Mitt Romney I don’t know who it could be. If he’s street than I’m the [...]
January 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 134 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, Readership Capture
Thursday Night Recipe Exchange
(Photo from JeffreyW’s mouth watering collection) New weekly feature—assuming y’all respond as you should. Welcome back to TaMara, Recipe Goddess of What’s 4 Dinner Solutions: Aloha Balloon-Juicers. I’m back. I wish I could say I was back from a long trip abroad, but no, life has just been very busy. That has not changed, but [...]
January 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 63 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Readership Capture
Open Thread: They’re Beginning to Catch On…
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) Erick “Voice of the Gated-Community GOP” Erickson did not have a happy Hump Day. First, his fervent plea to man-crush Rick Perry to become “the catalyst and kingmaker so many have been looking for” —by dropping out and endorsing, gawd save the marks, Newt Gingrich—was not well received among the RedState [...]
January 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 71 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Republican Stupidity
Open thread
Do not miss your chance to blow.
January 18, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 75 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Readership Capture
Song of the week
From JPk at Can’t Explain: James Brown, “Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like a) Sex Machine” (1970) Sometimes you just have to go with the classic tried and true and perhaps no one and nothing is more so than James Brown doing this song蓉nless it’s James Brown doing any of dozens of his masterpieces [...]
January 13, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 39 Comments
Posted in: Music, Readership Capture
Open Thread: Hate Is Not A Family Value
And those of us who understand that now have an excuse to buy more Girl Scout cookies. On the one hand: Yes, this is a blatant attempt at attention-grabbing by a handful of sad authoritarians using children as puppets for their twisted agenda. On the other hand: Generally, I feel about GS cookies the way [...]
January 12, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 140 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Readership Capture
